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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worship, ceremony |
| Synonyms: | celebration, ceremonial, form, formality, formula, observance, rite, ritual, sacrament, service, services |
| Notes: | a litany is a series of prayers; a liturgy is the canon of a religious service |
| Main Entry: | cult |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worship; form of ceremony |
| Synonyms: | admiration, ceremony, craze, creed, cultus, devotion, faddism, faith, idolization, liturgy, persuasion, religion, reverence, rite, ritual, veneration |
| Notes: | a sect is a rule defined by some doctrinal difference, a cult by allegiance to an idea or commanding personality |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, custom |
| Synonyms: | academism, ceremony, convenance, conventionality, form, gesture, liturgy, matter of form, officialism, procedure, red tape, rite, ritual, rituality, rubric, rule, service, solemnity, solemnness, stereotype, tradition |
| Antonyms: | informality |
| Main Entry: | observance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony, rite |
| Synonyms: | celebration, ceremonial, custom, fashion, form, formality, liturgy, performance, practice, ritual, rule, service, tradition |
| Notes: | observance refers to the following of a custom, duty, or law; observation refers to the act of noticing or recording |
| Antonyms: | unorthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | requiem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hymn, mass |
| Synonyms: | canticle, ceremony, chant, death song, dirge, elegy, eulogy, funeral hymn, liturgy, memorial service, monody, psalm, religious song, ritual, sermon, threnody, worship |
| Main Entry: | rite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony, tradition |
| Synonyms: | act, celebration, ceremonial, communion, custom, form, formality, liturgy, observance, occasion, ordinance, practice, procedure, ritual, sacrament, service, solemnity |
| Notes: | a rite is an established form of religious or otherwise solemn practice; a ritual is a prescribed form for carrying out the ceremonies associated with such a practice (both from Latin ritus 'ceremony') |
| Main Entry: | ritual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony, tradition |
| Synonyms: | act, ceremonial, communion, convention, custom, form, formality, habit, liturgy, observance, ordinance, practice, prescription, procedure, protocol, red tape, rite, routine, sacrament, service, solemnity, stereotype, usage |
| Notes: | a rite is an established form of religious or otherwise solemn practice; a ritual is a prescribed form for carrying out the ceremonies associated with such a practice (both from Latin ritus 'ceremony') |
| Main Entry: | sacrament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rite |
| Synonyms: | baptism, celebration, ceremony, communion, confession, confirmation, custom, holy orders, liturgy, marriage, matrimony, oath, observance, practice, ritual, service, vow |
| Main Entry: | service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rite of a church |
| Synonyms: | ceremonial, ceremony, formality, function, liturgy, observance, ritual, sermon, worship |
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