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Pageantry vs Ritual - What's the difference?

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Pageantry is a related term of ritual.


As nouns the difference between pageantry and ritual

is that pageantry is a pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant while ritual is ritual, rite.

pageantry

English

Noun

(pageantries)
  • A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
  • *1609 : William Shakespeare, Pericles (V, ii)
  • *:That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry , what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.
  • *1849 : Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
  • *:The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry , with silken streamers flying, ...

    • ritual

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rituall (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
    • They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.

    Derived terms

    * ritually

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • rite; a repeated set of actions
    • They carried out the ritual carefully.

    Derived terms

    * ritualisation, ritualization * ritualise, ritualize * ritualist * ritualistic * ritually