Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To divest of sacred or religious significance.
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- verb religion To remove something’s sacredness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
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Examples
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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.
Bizarre 2009
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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.
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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.
film review by Charles G. Lambdin: Creationism by Any Other Name - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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The language is actually real English and not committee-speak designed to desacralize the liturgy with fortune cookie inanities.
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