sacralize
verbEtymology From sacral + -ize.
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Lifestyle, Religion to make sacred
- 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:
- Derived terms
- desacralize, resacralize, sacralization