sacralize
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editsacralize (third-person singular simple present sacralizes, present participle sacralizing, simple past and past participle sacralized)
- (religion) to make sacred
- Synonyms: sacredize, sanctify; see also Thesaurus:consecrate
- Antonyms: desacralize; see also Thesaurus:desecrate
- 2022 June 6, Patrick Jonsson, Noah Robertson, “Has the gun become a sacred object in America?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- Bishop Daniel Flores of the Brownsville Diocese in Texas recently wrote on Twitter that Americans “sacralize death’s instruments, and then are surprised that death uses them.” [...] Bishop Flores told the Catholic website The Pillar, “[...] To say something is sacralized is to say it’s almost taken out of any possibility for conversation.”
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editsacralize
- inflection of sacralizar: