Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make sacred.
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- verb religion To make
sacred .
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Examples
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Nobel Peace Prizes have been mostly this way, only as domestic movements mostly use religious language as well as imagery -- like putting to genocide -- to "sacralize" their agendas.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Nobel Peace Prizes have been mostly this way, only as domestic movements mostly use religious language as well as imagery -- like putting to genocide -- to "sacralize" their agendas.
Should the Peace Prize Have Gone to Neda? -- Politics Daily admin 2009
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My worry is that by making a taboo out of the word, we actually sacralize it in a way.
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“To name the Nazi genocide ‘the Holocaust,’ ” the philosopher Gillian Rose warned, “is already to over-unify it and to sacralize it, to see it as providential purpose—for in the Hebrew scriptures, a holocaust refers to a burnt sacrifice which is offered in its entirety to God without any part of it being consumed.”
Holocaust and Israel 2009
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These ritualized behaviors effectively sacralize the male body, making it a carrier of the sacred and a vehicle for public demonstration of connectedness to God and Torah.
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To their credit, that great Fertility Cult, (known as the Catholic Church) now tries to sacralize life; and prevent such state-sponsored murders, albeit sometimes to excess.
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After that much tattered, much traveled flag from the World Trade Center -- our homegrown Shroud of Turin -- joined Sting, LeAnn Rimes, Yo-Yo Ma and President George W. Bush to sacralize the already-simon-pure precincts of Salt Lake City.
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The victims of this war are the same dark-skinned people whose deaths we ignore in order to sacralize our own, far less numerous ones.
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The "filters" are activists who take economic issues and "sacralize" them as biblical mandates.
Talk To Action Talk To Action 2010
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The "filters" are activists who take economic issues and "sacralize" them as biblical mandates.
Talk To Action 2010
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