Examples of 'pagan rites' in a sentence

Meaning of "pagan rites"

pagan rites: Rituals or ceremonies associated with pagan traditions or religions. These rites often involve practices, prayers, or celebrations that are not part of mainstream religious beliefs.

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pagan rites
One imagines all sorts of pagan rites.
Suppression of pagan rites and heretics.
On the grounds that they contained pagan rites.
At the same time some pagan rites were still practiced.
A cavern that at some time it was used for pagan rites.
Pagan rites were incorporated into Christian celebrations.
I took part in pagan rites.
The early history of Catholic ceremonial affords numerous parallels for this Christianizing of pagan rites.
Indulging in pagan rites.
The Christian Religion is packed in consequence with survivals of pagan rites.
Santa Muerte is a mixture from pagan rites and Catholicism.
These were pagan rites practiced by the Arabs long before Muhammad was born.
Circles men and women who practised the pagan rites.
Lamentably, today those pagan rites are again fashionable.
In spite of this disaster, pagans made one last attempt to revive the pagan rites.

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Whoever refused to take part in the Roman pagan rites was first exiled, then slain.
Privately he was contemptuous of Himmler 's attempts to revive ancient German pagan rites.
What religion today practices the pagan rites of the moon-god?
Observant Jews had special rights, including the privilege of abstaining from civic pagan rites.
Even elements of pagan rites may be discerned, such as traces of the sun-cult.
It was a time when the church became corrupt by combining pagan rites and Christian teaching.
In 395 Theodosius banned all pagan animal sacrifices, closed the pagan temples, and prohibited pagan rites.
He explores concepts such as travel, pagan rites and mythology.
Andrew soon broke with his pagan supporters, restored Christianity and declared pagan rites illegal.
Also, unlike Josiah, his father, Jehoiakim permitted pagan rites to flourish again in Judah.
Men and women strip naked, they say, and indulge in pagan rites.
In 391 the Christian Emperor Theodosius introduced legislation that banned pagan rites and closed temples.
Checked out by Alexander… The pagan rites.
Men and women strip naked, they say . Indulging in pagan rites.

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