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rituˈality
[f. ritual a. + -ity.]
†1. A rite or ceremony. Obs.
1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 6 The Royal Corps..was..inhum'd with the greatest solemnities and most stately ritualities could be devised.
2. Ritualism; attention to ritual. rare.
1679T. Puller Moder. Ch. Eng. (1843) 129 To keep Christians from enthusiasm in one extreme, and from what some call ‘rituality’ on the other. 1683E. Hooker Pref. to Pordage's Mystic Div. 51 note, Crucified, as it were, twixt Ritualitie and Scrupulositie. 1974Times 16 Apr. 7/6 What Solzhenitsyn writes about ideological rituality, about the harmful waste of millions of people's time and efforts on this chatter that inculcates twaddle and hypocrisy, is indisputable. |