Cult and Rites

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Cult noun - A group of people showing intense devotion to a cause, person, or work (as a film).

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Rites and cult are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rites" instead a noun "Cult".

Nearby Word: culture

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Cult and rites are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cult" instead a noun "Rites".

While blood rites were probably a part of the cult in the past, the rituals are now symbolic.

Source: Literature / Doctrine of Labyrinths
Women in the cult of Dionysus would go off to perform their sacred rites, and since the men didn't know what they were doing, they made up stories about mad women having wild orgies in the woods.

Source: Women's Mysteries
Religion of Evil: The Mahaveda cult preaches blind obedience to the Malwa leadership, and among its various rites is skinning the bodies of its victims, crafting them so that the wind will inflate them to look more like the original people.

Source: Literature / Belisarius Series

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