Definition of "desacralize" []

• To divest of sacred or religious significance. (verb-transitive)

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• "This includes all those who wish to make the Church of Jesus Christ into a purely humanitarian society, to rob her of her supernatural character, to secularize and desacralize her."
• "Christianity made science possible by helping to desacralize nature and also in helping to preserve much ancient scientific literature destroyed by “pagan” invaders of Rome."
• "Then we needed to desacralize the world, which we did through religious developments, as paradoxically we saved religion by sending the gods into the heavens while leaving the earth “atheistic” and mechanical in the doing."