to sacralize
- verb
- /ˈseɪkrəˌlaɪz/
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sacralizar
- The very terms of revolutionary rhetoric, "liberty" and "tyranny," were, as she points out, infused with a deep admixture of religious and political meanings, politicizing the sacred and sacralizing the political in the making of a new civil identity.
- sacralizing rituals
So I, I find all of these efforts to sacralize violence to be very frightening.
- So I, I find all of these efforts to sacralize violence to be very frightening.
Examples
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Religion sends men off to war; every religion blesses and sacralizes war.
Fiction book (2002) -
As Richard Lischer explains in his study The Preacher King, modern theology attempted to secularize the world, while black preachers sought to sacralize the world.
Academic text (2003) -
And I think you sacralize the complexity of biological systems.
Blog text (28) -
Why should we see this image as sacralizing?
Academic text (1998) -
Locations of past events should be revered and sacralized even if no material relict remains there (Tunbridge and Ashworth 1996).
Academic text (2008) -
Religious symbols sacralized and mystified Christmas gift-giving; such displays bathed consumption in the reflected glory of Christianity.
Academic text (1992) -
Theirs was not a mode of sacralizing colonization, but an act that opened a route to breaking the vicious circle of their marginality and enhancing their upward mobility.
Academic text (2008) -
A lay ritual specialist sacralizes the objects and makes the offerings to the Four Lords, who Davis (1984:104-118) identifies as the Lokapala, the cardinal directions.
Academic text (1992) -
Spaces that had been sanctified by holy persons or events, as testified in their histories, were sacralized through physical marking and enclosure within churches and shrines.
Academic text (2007) -
Many cultures sacralize certain locations, treating them as holy and deserving of reverence.
Synonyms
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4.2
To show love and deep respect to a god by taking part in religious ceremonies
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5.3
To make a building for religious use by a ceremony
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7.4
To make a place or person holy by a ceremony
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7.4
To make a person or place holy with a religious ceremony
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7.4
To show great respect for a person or thing
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8.4
To treat someone like a god and admire them too much
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7.1
To treat someone or something with deep respect
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8.0
To give something a religious meaning or feeling
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9.9
To make someone or something into a god
To admire someone too much and ignore their faults
Antonyms
How Sacred
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sacralize comes from the Latin root sacer, which means 'sacred'; you can see the same root in English sacred and sacrifice. So to sacralize something is to make it 'sacred' or treat it with religious respect.