"symbolic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- J.P.B. had used this gown as a symbolic rite on 20 occasions while conferring doctorates on his students.
- These initiations were not merely symbolic rites of passage, but involved transmission of and confirmation of spiritual experiences.
- She will also continue to campaign against female genital mutilation, while urging communities to come up with more symbolic rites of passage for girls at puberty.
- In that symbolic rite a child became a man.
- Stone (karb) beating is symbolic rite which is popular in several parts of the country accompanied by special melodies.
- Although trusted with one of the last symbolic rites of the Hawaiian religion, he later became a supporter of Christian missionaries.
- Sanj gradually was used in "Stone beating" symbolic rite, which still is popular in several parts of the Iran accompanied by special melodies.
- Police pageantry was a symbolic rite.
- It may be appealing as a symbolic rite of passage: one goes in as a rookie and emerges as something of a brother or teammate.
- Isambard turned about beneath the trembling hands with a stony quietness, surrendering to these symbolic rites a body from which the mind seemed to have withdrawn.
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