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RITUALIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ritualist" is a kind of...):

cultural anthropologist; social anthropologist (an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems)

Derivation:

ritualism (the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ritualist" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Derivation:

ritualism (exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship)

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