"rite de passage" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 584",
          "text": "it seems that the beginning of the decline of this traditional rite de passage should be traced back to the break effected by the Reformation, though the change also had sociological causes, notably the decline of the tightly knit community in which an individual death created an immediate void.",
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          "text": "Males hoping for acceptance must undergo a perilous rite de passage.",
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          "ref": "1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 34",
          "text": "An ailment can be a rite de passage, a childhood illness an essential preliminary to entry into adulthood.",
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