Ceremony
Ceremony noun - An oft-repeated action or series of actions performed in accordance with tradition or a set of rules.
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Rites and ceremony are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rites" instead a noun "Ceremony".
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- For other kinds of rites and rituals that earns you membership into a group of people, see Initiation Ceremony and is various subtropes such as the Gang Initiation Fight.
Source: Rite of Passage -
In Making Money The necromancer Professor of Post-Mortem Communications performs rites with all the dribbly candles, pentagrams and such partly because of tradition and partly because people called from beyond the grave expect ceremony and want to see that you've put the effort in.
Source: Summoning Ritual -
The six arts are: rites (including things like ceremony, etiquette and diplomacy), music, archery, chariot riding (along with archery, representing strength of arms), calligraphy and finally mathematics.
Source: Everybody Hates Mathematics
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