change by reversal, reverse, turn - change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
That room has now gone and all sadly in a state of decay due to vandalism and the consequent necessity to deconsecrate the church, which had been standing there for some 800 years.
Verbal descriptions are used to consecrate and deconsecrate (as well as re-consecrate) a place: a building, a room, a space--and, through this, transform a situation, a relation, and a faith.
With the extinguishing of the eternal flame, Rabbi Valerie Cohen will formally deconsecrate the sanctuary, the mezuzot will be removed, and the doors will close on a fundamental piece of Worcester's Jewish history.
In unitary societies, whenever the merchant class, with its disrespect for tradition, threatened to deconsecrate values, the coherence of myth would give way to the myth of coherence.
