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ritualistic

Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.

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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. Derek Walcott

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. Elia Kazan

I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic. Sarah Silverman

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression. Bell hooks

Both Hopkins and Lawrence were religious not just in the ritualistic sense but in the sense of being obsessed with the word - the word made life and truth - with the need to invent a language as direct as religious utterance. Stephen Spender

I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way. Emraan Hashmi

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