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desacralize
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de·sa·cral·ize  (d-skr-lz, -skr-)
tr.v. de·sa·cral·ized, de·sa·cral·iz·ing, de·sa·cral·iz·es
To divest of sacred or religious significance.
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Verb1.desacralize - transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
secularize
transfer - cause to change ownership; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children"


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That would be to inject into the liturgy one of the most desacralized and desacralizing elements.
The Pope is rich! And other Vatican myths by Allen, John L., Jr. / U.S. Catholic
In "Images of the King at the Beginning of the Revolution," Markoff examines the contradiction between the view that the monarchy had been desacralized before the reign of Louis XVI and the contention that the revolutionaries had relied on a constitutional monarchy as part of their new government.
Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doleances ... by Censer, Jack R. / Journal of Social History
Hankins elaborates upon these themes: he details curial humanists' articulation of the "golden age" topos in which they lauded papal Rome as cultural arbiter, but he also points to the disruptive implications of their treatment of previously unchallengeable texts as desacralized sources rather than as authorities.
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture by Gouwens, Kenneth / Renaissance Quarterly
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