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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sacralize .
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Examples
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Some writers have accused Jews of making too much of the Holocaust, even exploiting it to justify Israeli actions they disagree with by giving the Holocaust a sacralized ahistorical status.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Only those who accept "Americanism" in all its anhedonic glory need apply for citizenship, a precondition for which is knowledge of Gelernter's "sacralized reading of American history"?
Art and Culture 2010
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Some writers have accused Jews of making too much of the Holocaust, even exploiting it to justify Israeli actions they disagree with by giving the Holocaust a sacralized ahistorical status.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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In the end, the Holocaust is sacralized out of history by some, shamed out of history by others.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Canal-builders of the North American southwest could not survive protracted droughts, however fervently they sacralized water.
Any Drop to Drink? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 2011
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In the end, the Holocaust is sacralized out of history by some, shamed out of history by others.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Here the language of religion sacralized the violence that would offer the community an exit from their guilt.
Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D.: The Religion (and Race) of the President: Obama as National Scapegoat 2010
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Over the centuries, Jewish women elaborated a rich set of rituals with which they sacralized their daily lives, major life-cycle events, and holidays (on which, see below).
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These women sacralized every imaginable aspect of their lives through rituals they created and then successfully communicated as binding for the women of the community — as close an analogue to halakhah (rabbinic law and authority) as one could have.
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If naming is one level of optimistic abstraction, then “christening” adds to it a second level: the baby is named to a larger corpus and sacralized.
Felicitous Words : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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