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ritualistically

ritualistically adverb: done as though following a ritual; in a ritualistic manner.'.

Adverb

ritualistically (comparative more ritualistically, superlative most ritualistically)

  1. Done as though following a ritual; in a ritualistic manner.'
    • For fifty years, ritualistically, he had been repeating the same jokes, laughing at them because they were so infantile and stupid1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 376

Forms of ritualistically

comparativemore ritualistically
superlativemost ritualistically

Origin of ritualistically

From ritualistic + -ally.

Questions about ritualistically

What does ritualistically mean?
Ritualistically means done as though following a ritual; in a ritualistic manner.'.
What part of speech is ritualistically?
Ritualistically is an adverb.

Words near ritualistically in the dictionary

  1. ritualising
  2. ritualism
  3. ritualisms
  4. ritualist
  5. ritualistic
  6. ritualistically
  7. ritualists
  8. ritualities
  9. rituality
  10. ritualizable
  11. ritualization

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