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Definition of "sacralize" []

  • To make sacred. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sacralize" in a sentence
  • "Nobel Peace Prizes have been mostly this way, only as domestic movements mostly use religious language as well as imagery -- like putting to genocide -- to "sacralize" their agendas."
  • "These ritualized behaviors effectively sacralize the male body, making it a carrier of the sacred and a vehicle for public demonstration of connectedness to God and Torah."
  • "My worry is that by making a taboo out of the word, we actually sacralize it in a way."