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ritually /ˈrɪtʃʊəli /adverb1In a way that is done as a religious or solemn rite: the temple is ritually cleansed...- The biggest holiday for them is the three-day series of ceremonies to sacrifice to the ancestral spirits and ritually renew the village.
- Traditional carvers would regard their wood splitting as evidence of malignant spirits and would be careful to ritually burn or bury an abandoned sculpture.
- I had seen her 'smudge' the house with sage smoke, which, done ritually, cleanses the atmosphere.
1.1In a way that arises from convention or habit: I ritually check the local news sites...- Each month he ritually held an hour-long session of throwing unwanted 'rubbish' out.
- Truth commissions ritually invert the position of the victim in the politics of pain by shifting the focus from terror to trauma.
- He appears to slide the glass panel on the left side closed, and then the action is almost ritually repeated in reverse order.
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