Definition of "ritualisation" []

• Alternative form of ritualization. (noun)

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