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  • noun British Alternative form of ritualization.

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Examples

  • Personally, I have no idea why one action once would completely undo a very long period of complete obsession and repetitive ritualisation.

    Galactic Suburbia Show Notes - Episode 6 girliejones 2010

  • In its heyday, Brighton may have been the genius loci of sexual, sartorial and culinary excess, but there remains something peculiarly British about its ritualisation of the forbidden.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Jonathan 2005

  • In its heyday, Brighton may have been the genius loci of sexual, sartorial and culinary excess, but there remains something peculiarly British about its ritualisation of the forbidden.

    What happened to dirty weekends in Brighton? Jonathan 2005

  • But if we can allow the dairy ritual of the Todas to help us in the matter, we may conclude that in any case it was not really primitive, and that it was a result of that process of over-ritualisation to which must also be ascribed the _piacula_ caused by the growth of a fig-tree on the roof of the temple, and the three

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • As an Iranian who does not advocate the current regime, I have no problem with citing the many crimes committed daily in this region, from human rights violations to fiscal abuse, habitual coersion of an angry population to the ritualisation of death embedded in exercising one's right to freedom of speech.

    Bloggers4Labour 2009

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