sacralization
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editsacralization (countable and uncountable, plural sacralizations)
- 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.
- A developmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra.
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editdevelopmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra
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