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Desacralize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To divest of sacred or religious significance.

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v. To remove something’s sacredness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control

Word Usage

"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."

Antonym

sacralize

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

transfer

Form

desacralization

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

desecrate