Dictionary

sacralization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /seɪkɹəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree 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 Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English sacralization From sacralize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The endowment of something with sacred qualities; making sacred.
   • The sacralization of arbitrary lines on a map may seem illogical, but there is a rationale to the respecting of norms, even arbitrary and unjustifiable ones. 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 313:
   • The spirituality of hunters and gatherers is a sacralization of everyday life, but once we move to maintain a formal priesthood, we also move to split experience into the sacred and the profane. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 153:
2. (countable, uncountable) A developmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra.

Forms

Antonyms

desacralization · desanctification

Deriveds

resacralization

Relateds

sacralize

Translations (2)

is spjaldliðun (developmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra) · es sacralización (developmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra)