ceremonialismn.
/sɛrɪˈməʊnɪəlɪz(ə)m/ Addiction to or fondness for external ceremonies in religion; ritualism.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to > slavish
formalizinga1656
externalness1667
rituality1679
externality1833
ritualism1838
rubricism1840
ecclesiolatry1847
ceremonialism1854
externalism1856
formalism1856
exterioritya1875
liturgism1926
spikery1965
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 269 A priesthood, submission to ecclesiastical supremacy, and an imposing ceremonialism.
1859 B. Jowett Epist. St. Paul (ed. 2) II. 385 The ceremonialism of the age..passed by a sort of contagion from one race to another, from Paganism or Judaism to Christianity.
1879 A. Beresford-Hope in Trans. St. Paul's Eccl. Soc. (1885) I. 1 That newer movement..called Ritualism, but which ought more properly to be called Ceremonialism.
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