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rites de passage

rites de passage is the plural of rite de passage.

Meaning of rite de passage

Noun

rite de passage (plural rites de passage)

  1. Synonym of rite of passage.
    • it seems that the beginning of the decline of this traditional rite de passage should be traced back to the break effected by the Reformation, though the change also had sociological causes, notably the decline of the tightly knit community in which an individual death created an immediate void.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 584
    Synonyms:
    rite of passage

Questions about rites de passage

What is rites de passage the plural of?
Rites de passage is the plural of rite de passage.

Words near rites de passage in the dictionary

  1. ritenuto
  2. ritenutos
  3. Riter
  4. Riters
  5. rites
  6. rites de passage
  7. rites of passage
  8. Ritesh
  9. rith
  10. ritha
  11. rithe

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