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Example sentences for "ceremonialism"

Lexicographically close words:
cerebrospinal; cerebrum; cerecloth; cerements; ceremonial; ceremonially; ceremonials; ceremonias; ceremonie; ceremonies
  1. There can be no question that James here entered fully into sympathy with the contention of Paul that the yoke of Jewish ceremonialism should not be imposed upon the Gentile Christians.

  2. James knew only too well the empty ceremonialism of the Jews who said and did not.

  3. They recognize also the truth and the life which Christianity presents in contrast with the debasing idolatry and the senseless, all-pervasive ceremonialism which haunt them.

  4. The Syrian Church has hitherto been greatly cursed with the trinity of evils—ignorance, ceremonialism and superstition.

  5. Subsequent to this we see the light vanishing and earnestness giving place to triviality of thought, to the ravings of superstition, to the inanities of ceremonialism and to the laws of social and religious bondage.

  6. So, to the ordinary Hindu, especially to him to whom the way of meditation in the wilderness seems impossible, ceremonialism becomes a matter of supreme concern.

  7. The all-pervasive, chilling influence of heathenism, and its dead and deadening ceremonialism tend to exercise an increasing power over him.

  8. Just as ceremonialism covers all his personal life, even so caste observance defines for him all his social relations.

  9. Ceremonialism has not yet cast its chilling influence over the heart of the nation.

  10. Ah, if he could have thrown aside the mummery and pagan ceremonialism which he was there to conduct, and have sat down among them, as Jesus was wont to do on those still mornings in Galilee!

  11. Why continue to dazzle them with pagan ceremonialism and oriental glamour, and then, our exactions wrung from them, leave them to consume with disease and decay with moral contagion?

  12. But his conception of ceremonialism served him in good stead on many an occasion in his eventful life.

  13. The ceremonialism of the Scribes and Pharisees in the days of our Lord and which excited His supreme wrath, was not a consequence as compared to that of Hinduism to-day.

  14. As in all these cases, including that of the Puritans, the sacrifice of aesthetic pleasure in worship was not merely a reactionary protest against the excess of ceremonialism and artistic enjoyment.

  15. The ceremonialism of types and shadows contained in the books written by Moses He fulfilled by meeting them as their great Antitype.

  16. But our ceremonialism is pregnant with sublime symbolism, and its discipline is most salutary.

  17. No; much of our so-called ceremonialism is merely the primitive mix-up of everything with religion in a theocracy.

  18. Bull Durham is also important in peyote ceremonialism because it is "real Indian tobacco.

  19. These three groups constitute the only ones having formalized bear ceremonialism of any sort in the Basin.

  20. The gathering of pine nuts, in contrast to the gathering of other plants, was the subject of a great deal of ritual and, in some degree, of ceremonialism uncommon to most Washo gathering activities.

  21. The first of them he contrasts with religious ceremonialism in chap.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceremonialism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    celebration; cult; pedantry; preciosity; symbolism