Desanctify

Quick meaning: Desanctify is a verb meaning (transitive) To remove the sanctified status of.

Meaning

(transitive) To remove the sanctified status of.

Example Sentences

Christianity desanctifies these in a positive sense by rendering them subservient to an entirely different kind of holiness.

His utopias aren't "nowhere" -- counterfactual examples of how things might be in order to desanctify how things actually are.

What qualifies? Anything that could significantly influence your deciding whether to rent the place — low-flying jets, overflowing drains or desanctified brothels.

In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia.

Word Forms

• desanctifies
• desanctifying
• desanctified

Synonyms for desanctify

Depending on context, synonyms include desacralize, desecrate, unconsecrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unsanctify, deconsecrate, desacralize, sanctify, disconsecrate, unconsecrate.

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