“Ritualized” or “Ritualised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “ritualized” and 2 prefer “ritualised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	ritualized	ritualised	Preference
United States	100	0	“ritualized”
United Kingdom	28	72	“ritualised”
India	73	27	“ritualized”
Philippines	100	0	“ritualized”
Canada	100	0	“ritualized”
Australia	31	69	“ritualised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“ritualized”

…implicitly equated with superstition and ritualized sacrifice.
…in Celtic, Norse and Other Ritualized Landscapes, Thames and Hudson,
…in Turkey was a complex, ritualized process.
McCorkle argued that these ritualized compulsions (especially in regard to…
…origin of the practice (this ritualized alternative to a more disabling…
…Central India involving robbery and ritualized murder and mutilation on highways—and…
…and mating behavior is strictly ritualized and starts in April–June.
…of Gabriel Herman who studied "ritualized kinship" in the 1987 Ritualized…
With the theory, ritualized symbolic practices (RSPs) are socially…
…warlike cultures, war is often ritualized with a number of taboos…

“ritualised”

…court life; or conversely, the ritualised nature of the king's public…
It is harder to find ritualised deposits on dry land.
…among those publicly burnt in ritualised book burnings held across Germany.
…means to eradicate their more ritualised marriages.
…display flight, a 'bowing' display, ritualised preening and 'billing' during courtship.
…language found in the highly ritualised percussion music of Japan and
…species have evolved forms of ritualised combat to determine who wins…
…with the Church and the ritualised theatricality of the mass.
…immediate aftermath of his public, ritualised murder by his opponents is…
Ritualised sacrifice was usually performed in…

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