sacralization

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Etymology

From sacralize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /seɪkɹəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun

sacralization (countable and uncountable, plural sacralizations)

  1. The endowment of something with sacred qualities; making sacred.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 153:
      The spirituality of hunters and gatherers is a sacralization of everyday life, but once we move to maintain a formal priesthood, we also move to split experience into the sacred and the profane.
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 313:
      The sacralization of arbitrary lines on a map may seem illogical, but there is a rationale to the respecting of norms, even arbitrary and unjustifiable ones.
  2. A developmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra.

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