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Meanings of initiation ceremonies in English
Practice of rituals used as a way of initiating a person into a group.
Synonyms
Examples for "hazing"
Examples for "hazing"
1
Their part in a brutal fraternity hazing ritual cost them their freedom.
2
Eaton's companions in the hazing all bore him out in the statement.
3
All this pretending that hazing doesn't exist when you know it does.
4
The fraternity was also accused of hazing pledges and other objectionable conduct.
5
They, too, are very frequently objects of hazing in its severest form.
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I don't want baby brother ragging on me for breaking medical protocol.
2
But I hate to see those boughten lawyers ragging him in court.
3
It is no fun ragging a man who doesn't lose his temper.
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But there's not much value in ragging on people just because they're different.
5
That led to more ragging, and he didn't try asking again.
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It's nothing but a bastardisation of the law for those who pull the strings from behind.
2
World War Z, allegedly a bastardisation of Max Brooks's novel, seemed to be heading for a critical roasting.
3
South Africans have yet again been treated to a grotesque bastardisation of the idea of a state of the nation address.
4
I'm not sure either, whether it's just a bit of Euro-bastardisation of cushion or they really intended the play on "cushy number".
5
They are merely crude, phonetic bastardisations of the Irish words.
Usage of initiation ceremonies in English
1
You will then all assemble at the camp-fire for initiation ceremonies.
2
After two days of slickly brutal initiation ceremonies the asteroid now belonged to him.
3
Mr. Newton had ideas of his own about initiation ceremonies.
4
Naming follows almost immediately after birth, while puberty and initiation ceremonies are entirely lacking.
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If girls also have the same initiation ceremonies, it is not special to boys.
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Rock festivals at that time were like biker gang initiation ceremonies of aggression and degradation.
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And police have even seized 120 plastic helmets allegedly used by the gang in initiation ceremonies.
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They joined many clubs and societies the initiation ceremonies being, in reality, a mild form of hazing.
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The rigors and rituals of initiation ceremonies at adolescence impressed the duties of sociality at that impressionable period.
10
It is said he enacts the character of the Devil, with a pea-green tail, in the Mormon initiation ceremonies.
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Further initiation ceremonies are required before he can be accepted as a fellow craft mason and then a master mason.
12
The initiation ceremonies, the punishments, the degradations he'd undergone for the sect -none of them prepared him for this.
13
Last year in the US, four freshman students died as a direct result of hazing rituals during college fraternity initiation ceremonies.
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What's more, pagans favored barbarous initiation ceremonies, and with good reason, they were reputed to believe in reincarnation-anathemato the Church.
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This name was chosen in honour of the retired Reverend and doctor, a vocal advocate for safe circumcision during initiation ceremonies.
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They are said to be used by the blacks in their several initiation ceremonies, but what their use or significance is, is not known.
Translations for initiation ceremonies
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