desacralize en · VERB
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English sacral Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English sacralize English desacralize From de- + sacralize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To remove the sacredness of.
Still, certain programmatic commitments [of avant-garde art] can be identified: championing the volatile eventness of corporeal performances, […] consciously embracing the desacralizing and subversive, and disrupting conventional norms by placing the strange and unexpected in otherwise banal places.
2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 74:If whiteness bespoke purity and godliness, then poor white trash implied an ungodly, desacralized, polluted whiteness.
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 47:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| desacralized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| desacralized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| desacralizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| desacralise | alternative | lexicographic | |
| desacralizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |