funerary ritual

collocation in English

meaningsoffuneraryandritual

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funerary
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈfjuː.nər.ə.ri/us
/ˈfjuː.nər.er.i/
used at or relating to funerals (= ceremonies for burying or burning ...
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ritual
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈrɪtʃ.u.əl/us
/ˈrɪtʃ.u.əl/
a way of doing something in which the same actions are done in the same way ...
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(Definition offuneraryandritualfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This was initially interpreted as remains of afuneraryritual.
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Theories suggest the site was dedicated tofuneraryritual.
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There are a great number of healing songs,funeraryritualsongs, wedding songs, love songs, dance songs, lullabies, traveling songs.
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Upon his death, he taught the people mourning ceremonies and a proper form offuneraryritual(by cremation).
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Lower-class communities forged social ties and negotiated political relations in elaborate funerary rituals which strategically reproduced the religious practices of elite sectors of society.
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Statuette fragments are always found on the household middens of this period, so their usage was apparently not restricted to votive offerings or funerary rituals.
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Harding concludes that funerary rituals reflected the collective urban consciousness, through self-definition and shared belief.
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The discovery of a sealed shaft tomb provides important new knowledge regarding the funerary rituals in this region.
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Funerary rituals served to re-integrate these different aspects of being.
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Following their practice of the time, they prepared his body with funerary rituals usually reserved for the chiefs and highest elders of the society.
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Scholars have associated the figures with shamans and possible funerary rituals.
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The purpose of this spell is to collect together the magical aids which were required for a burial, and also to perpetuate the protective funerary rituals.
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