English-French translations for ritual

• rituel
  Les élections de décembre n'ont été qu'un rituel de réinstallation. The December elections were actually a ritual of re-appointment.
  Le débat sur le Moyen-Orient risque quelque peu de devenir un débat rituel. The debate on the Middle East threatens to become something of a ritual debate.
  Chaque année, la discussion du budget de l'UE donne lieu au même rituel immuable. The EU's Budget procedure is becoming a set ritual every year.

Definition of ritual

• Related to a rite or repeated set of actions
• rite; a repeated set of actions

Examples

• They performed the ritual lighting of the candles
• They carried out the ritual carefully

Related words

• spiritual
• Spiritual
• spirituality
• spiritually
• spiritualism
• ritualistic
• spiritualist
• ritually
• ritualistically