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Rite of passage   /raɪt əv pˈæsədʒ/   Listen
Rite of passage

noun
1.
A ritual performed in some cultures at times when an individual changes status (as from adolescence to adulthood).





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... of increasing the viability of the race by removing the unfit. It survives today in some societies. Before and immediately after the Holocaust, there were still primitive societies on Earth which made a rather hard ordeal out of the Rite of Passage—the ceremony that enabled a boy to become a Man, if he passed ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett


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