desacralize

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Etymology

From de- +‎ sacralize.

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desacralize (third-person singular simple present desacralizes, present participle desacralizing, simple past and past participle desacralized)

  1. (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.

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