Rites
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The English Government has succeeded in greatly diminishing these murders, though the Thuggees still exist, and pursue the exercise of their horrible
rites
.
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There's really no ceremony, rituals, or
rites.
By contrast, the first known burials about 120,000 years ago were likely reserved for transgressors, excluding them from the usual
rites
intended to honor the dead.
Well, religious ritual and
rites
were essentially designed to serve the function of the anniversary, to be a container in which we would hold on to the remnants of that sacred, revelatory encounter that birthed the religion in the first place.
"The machines perform what seem religious
rites
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