sacralize

present singular third person sacralizes · participle present sacralizing · participle past sacralized · past sacralized

1. lifestyleto make sacred

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   Bishop Daniel Flores of the Brownsville Diocese in Texas recently wrote on Twitter that Americans “sacralize death’s instruments, and then are surprised that death uses them.” [...] Bishop Flores told the Catholic website The Pillar, “[...] To say something is sacralized is to say it’s almost taken out of any possibility for conversation.”

   2022 June 6, Patrick Jonsson, Noah Robertson, “Has the gun become a sacred object in America?”, in The Christian Science Monitor

   Synonyms: sacredize, sanctify, avow, behallow, bless, canonize, consecrate, dedicate · Antonyms: desacralize, corrupt, defile, desecrate, profanate, profane, profanize, pollute