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1648 S. Hartlib Further Discov. iv. 24 The wayes by which all degrees of Honour are obteined or conferred..with all the Ceremonies and Ritualities belonging thereunto.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 6 The Royal Corps..was..inhum'd with the greatest solemnities and most stately ritualities could be devised.

1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. (ed. 3) I. ii. 162 In religious Ritualities it is all one as to the nature of a Sacrifice.

1853 J. W. Kaye Admin. East India Company iv. ii. 476 They were a wild and predatory people, without laws, without ritualities, almost even without a rude sense of natural religion.

1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. viii. 208 To keep Christians from Enthusiasm in one extreme, and from what some call Rituality on the other.

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 51 Crucified, as it were, twixt Ritualitie and Scrupulositie.

1723 Epitome of Ethics ii. v. 121 Rituality is that Impiety, by which a Man..does in the mean time freeze, as to any spiritual Feeling.

a1730 N. Marshall Serm. (1731) II. xvi. 417 The great Error of the Jews in our Saviour's Time was indeed Rituality, i.e an excessive undue Regard to the Ceremonial of divine Worship.

1836 J. J. Dillon Etymol. Ess. 8 We find from St. Paul a rituality in the consecration of the bread and wine.

1867 N. Amer. Rev. July 121 That unitary spirit of love..which has all along lain entombed under the old rituality.

1903 New Internat. Encycl. XIV. 940/1 A revolt from the excessive rituality of Brahmanical Hinduism.

1974 Times 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.

2005 M. Mabilia Breast Feeding & Sexuality iv. 73 Behaviour immediately following birth is part of a rituality intended to introduce the newborn baby into a new phase of life.