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Ritualism   Listen
noun
Ritualism  n.  
1.
A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
2.
Specifically:
(a)
The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
(b)
Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.





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"Ritualism" Quotes from Famous Books



... returned with the work-basket, but stood with it in her hands, not daring to interrupt the gentleman, and listening to his discourse with as much patience and as little comprehension as if it had been one of the controversial sermons upon Ritualism with which on great occasions ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Words linked to "Ritualism" :   ritualist, practice, social anthropology, ritualistic


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