desacralize
English
Alternative forms
- desacralise
Verb
desacralize (third-person singular simple present desacralizes, present participle desacralizing, simple past and past participle desacralized)
- (religion, transitive) To remove the sacredness of.
- 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 47:
- If whiteness bespoke purity and godliness, then poor white trash implied an ungodly, desacralized, polluted whiteness.
- 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 74:
- 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.
Synonyms
- desanctify, desecrate; see also Thesaurus:desecrate
Antonyms
- sacralize; see also Thesaurus:consecrate
Derived terms
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