resacralize

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verb

To sacralize again; to make holy or sacred again.

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Meanings

verbresacralize (third-person singular simple present resacralizes, present participle resacralizing, simple past and past participle resacralized)

present singular third person resacralizes · participle present resacralizing · participle past resacralized · past resacralized

  1. To sacralize again; to make holy or sacred again.

    [T]he artist has returned to create new forms of expression, to resacralize, re-enchant, remythologize.

    1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 4

Origin

From re- + sacralize.

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APA

resacralize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resacralize

MLA

“resacralize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resacralize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resacralize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resacralize.

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