Rite
Rite noun - An oft-repeated action or series of actions performed in accordance with tradition or a set of rules.
Usage example: the annual summer rite of loading up the car for the big family vacation
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- NCIS: Has also established that in the service's earlier days as "NIS", agents underwent a similar "red test" scenario, carrying out assassinations as a rite of passage.
Source: It Gets Easier -
A giorgio (non-Vistani) who performs a great service for the Vistani may be offered the honor of performing the blood rite.
Source: Blood Brothers - Even though it is widely thought as a rite of passage, this expectation associates "real" manliness with the readiness to do violence to other men, often in the service of saving women.
Source: Gender Dynamics Index
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