Desacralize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Desacralize is a verb meaning (religion, transitive) To remove the sacredness of.
Meaning
(religion, transitive) To remove the sacredness of.
Example Sentences
If whiteness bespoke purity and godliness, then poor white trash implied an ungodly, desacralized, polluted whiteness.
Still, certain programmatic commitments [of avant-garde art] can be identified: championing the volatile eventness of corporeal performances, […] consciously embracing the desacralizing and subversive, and disrupting conventional norms by placing the strange and unexpected in otherwise banal places.
Word Forms
- desacralizes
- desacralizing
- desacralized
- desacralise
Synonyms for desacralize
Depending on context, synonyms include desanctify, desecrate.
Antonyms for desacralize
Common opposites include sacralize.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include desanctify, desecularize, disconsecrate, deconsecrate, unconsecrate, desecrate.
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