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- verb To remove the
sanctified status of.
Etymologies
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de- + sanctify
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Examples
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It is only fitting that someone who was innovative in some ways, steadfast in others, and courageous enough to desanctify both contemporary and historical oracles, would also serve as aesthetic prophet to developments in visual arts way past his time.
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Much has been said about the need to desanctify the experience of new and classical music; hence the casual, stripped - down atmosphere, with background music played before the concert and during the intermission, waiters and waitresses taking and serving drink orders before and during the performance.
Superfluities Redux 2008
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