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rite of passage
(redirected from Initiation rites)

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rite of passage (rt)
n.
A ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person's life indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood.


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RITE OF PASSAGE: Remind students of how Tlingit boys and girls performed initiation rites that marked their acceptance as full members of a tribe.
Regarding the rumors of macabre initiation rites and lucrative perks, Robbins writes: "I learned through my interviews .
For more than 10 years Rohr has reached tens of thousands of men in retreat talks and walked more than a thousand men through male initiation rites.
 
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