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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
desanctify .
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Examples
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The church is desanctified in "Moneyball," whose context is runaway commerce, and whose subtext is statistics—i.e., a scientific approach to the major-league version of the game that seeks to sweep away nostalgic notions and dry the moist eyes of the faithful.
'Moneyball': Stars, Stats and Perfect Pitch Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Musician Pat Metheny used the Sunday school space in the desanctified church between November and January to develop his new album Orchestrion, which features dozens of robotically connected instruments.
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His classroom, as holy as a desanctified church, is an urban battleground where precarious order contends with incipient chaos.
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His classroom, as holy as a desanctified church, is an urban battleground where precarious order contends with incipient chaos.
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The chapel has been desanctified and is now used mainly for weddings, with occasional concerts thrown in.
Archive 2008-12-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008
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The chapel has been desanctified and is now used mainly for weddings, with occasional concerts thrown in.
Music of the Season Walter Jon Williams 2008
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Catholic churches can't be used for non-catholic religious celebrations unless they have been desanctified ie are no longer Catholic churches.
Muslims praying in the cathedral. Ann Althouse 2007
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Great Regulars: But as oceans, trees and skies die in front of us, and the world and all its strange wonders are desanctified, our exercise is to seek out the overfamiliar and disregarded, the rejected, marginalized and faceless even, and to load these obscure players in life with larger significance.
Great Regulars: But as oceans, trees and skies die Rus Bowden 2007
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Two were to be relocated in Israel; the rest were to be desanctified and destroyed.
Israel's High Court To Reconsider Gaza Synagogue Issue Howard M. Friedman 2005
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For the other Gaza synagogues, the court ruled that they should be photographed and documented, but then they should be desanctified according to Jewish law and destroyed.
Israel High Court Rules On Fate of Gaza Synagogues Howard M. Friedman 2005
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