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Definition of "sacralizing" []

  • Present participle of sacralize. (verb)

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Use "sacralizing" in a sentence
  • "This relativizing/sacralizing of actions is precisely why evangelicals are so successful in American politics."
  • "In his list of six primary features of martyr narratives, Marotti singles out two as uniquely Catholic: the "sacralizing of these sites of suffering and execution by means of Catholic prayer, sacramentalism, and ceremonialism" and "the occurrence of supernatural signs and wonders and the conversion of the bodies and body parts of the martyrs into saints' relics" 78."
  • "Joy spreads and sorrow spreads (659-60, 659) at Hart-leap Well and now here by the lakeside, as a further covenant formed of profane sacrifice and of memorializing, (re) sacralizing grief."
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