to desacralize

Examples

• All

• The Reformation desacralized the church in the name of the Bible, and the Bible became the sacred book.

  Blog text (14)

• The Bible was desacralized by historical and critical scholarship in the nineteenth century, and literature—through the efforts of critics like Matthew Arnold—became "sacralized" as a substitute religion.

  Academic text (1992)

• This will effectively "desacralize" animals in ways that will influence how people in the future will view them.

  Academic text (1999)

• My goal is to desacralize the idea of rigor in sexology.

  Academic text (1991)

• Depersonalized and desacralized, the body became data.

  Academic text (1996)

• And from a legal perspective they largely succeeded in their aims, that is to say, in desacralizing or secularizing English, English burial.

• This gradual increase in the use of yaqona might be taken as an indication that it has become desacralized.

  Academic text (1992)

• The comedy of satiric irreverence, as opposed to that contempt, tries to desacralize and deconstruct the Other who presumes to be legitimate authority.

  Academic text (1995)

• To focus on the print design, or our modern desacralized milieu, is to lose sight of the gloves or sacred places, which then lose their acuity and significance.

  Academic text (2003)

• Many artists in the modern era seek to desacralize religious themes in their work.

Synonyms

S

to secularize

vsto desacralize

4 7.6

To remove religious control from places like schools or hospitals

focuses on moving ownership and use into secular hands

D

to deconsecrate

vsto desacralize

• Formal

1 9.9

Officially say that a place such as a church or altar is no longer holy

does not require formal ritual and focuses on transfer to secular use

L

to laicize

vsto desacralize

• Formal

1 9.9

To make a person or institution non-religious by removing their church role

applies to transferring ownership or use rather than changing clerical status

U

to unsanctify

vsto desacralize

9.5

To stop something being treated as sacred so it can be used for normal purposes

emphasizes transfer into secular possession or control

U

to unhallow

vsto desacralize

• Archaic

9.9

To make a place or thing no longer holy

focuses on moving an item from religious to secular use

Antonyms

S

to sacralize

9.9

To make something seem holy or deeply religious

How Sacred

to consecrate

• Formal

33 7.4

to sanctify

24 7.4

to dedicate

284 3.7

to secularize

4 7.6

to desacralize

• Formal

1 9.9

to profane

4 7.2

Surface Forms

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