Ritually is an English word with synonyms like ceremonially. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ritually meaning
- In a ritual manner.
- By habit.
Synonyms of Ritually
Using Ritually
- The main meaning on this page is: In a ritual manner. | By habit.
- Useful related words include: ceremonially.
- In the example corpus, ritually often appears in combinations such as: to ritually, be ritually, was ritually.
Context around Ritually
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ritually
- In this selection, "ritually" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, paraded, creature, sikhs, purify, recite and contaminated stand out and add context to how "ritually" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include required to ritually recite its and and are ritually exorcised. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ritually" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ritually
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They researched as ritually as they could. (7 words)
He was said to ritually humiliate his children by turn, week in, week out. (14 words)
Failure to ritually purify the sacred space could result in God leaving, which would be disastrous. (16 words)
Once upon a time, performing troupes paraded, ritually, through the streets and town squares with stories that usually included the foibles of relationship and the sensibilities of the common people versus the entitled rich and ruling classes. (37 words)
In 1890, the Imperial Rescript on Education was issued, and students were required to ritually recite its oath to "offer yourselves courageously to the State" as well as to protect the Imperial family. (33 words)
In 1890, the Imperial Rescript on Education was passed, under which students were required to ritually recite its oath to offer themselves "courageously to the State" as well as protect the Imperial family. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
L’lamedcha schar gadol shel gomlei chasodim does not contain information about that which is prohibited or permitted, that which is ritually contaminated of pure.
They researched as ritually as they could.
He was said to ritually humiliate his children by turn, week in, week out.
Once upon a time, performing troupes paraded, ritually, through the streets and town squares with stories that usually included the foibles of relationship and the sensibilities of the common people versus the entitled rich and ruling classes.
In a doozy of a dark erotic dream, Rosemary sees herself surrounded by a chanting coven while a scaly creature ritually rapes her.
According to tradition, these spirits overwhelmingly possess new brides, are usually identified as the ghosts of young men who died while romantically or sexually frustrated, and are ritually exorcised.
Additionally, if anyone is injured on the grounds of a shrine, the area must be ritually purified.
After Beowulf's death, he is ritually burned on a great pyre in Geatland while his people wail and mourn him.
After he died, his brow was ritually tapped to see if he was dead, and those with him in the room said prayers.
Baptised Sikhs ritually wear five items, called the Five Ks (in Punjabi known as pañj kakkē or pañj kakār), at all times.
Boris II of Bulgaria was ritually divested of his imperial insignia in a public ceremony in Constantinople and he and his brother Roman of Bulgaria remained in captivity.
Crane's "Swede" in that story can be taken, following current psychoanalytical theory, as a surrogative, sacrificial victim, ritually to be purged.
Eligibility was limited to those who were distant from Jerusalem on Passover, or those who were ritually impure and ineligible to participate in a sacrificial offering.
Failure to ritually purify the sacred space could result in God leaving, which would be disastrous.
In 1890, the Imperial Rescript on Education was issued, and students were required to ritually recite its oath to "offer yourselves courageously to the State" as well as to protect the Imperial family.
In 1890, the Imperial Rescript on Education was passed, under which students were required to ritually recite its oath to offer themselves "courageously to the State" as well as protect the Imperial family.
In order to qualify for initiation, participants would sacrifice a piglet to Demeter and Persephone, and then ritually purify themselves in the river Illisos.
Many ritually bestow a new name on the deceased; funerary names typically use obsolete or archaic kanji and words, to avoid the likelihood of the name being used in ordinary speech or writing.
Other ritually bathed goddesses were Argive Hera and Cybele ; Aphrodite renewed her own powers bathing herself in the sea.
The boy, whose parents were divorced, was visiting his Muslim father during a vacation when his father forced him to be ritually circumcised.
Common combinations with ritually
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to ritually 4×
- be ritually 4×
- was ritually 3×
- is ritually 2×
- ritually burned 2×
- were ritually 2×
- ritually purify 2×
- ritually recite 2×