desanctify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His utopias aren't "nowhere" -- counterfactual examples of how things might be in order to desanctify how things actually are."
- "Christianity desanctifies these in a positive sense by rendering them subservient to an entirely different kind of holiness."
- "In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia."
- "What qualifies? Anything that could significantly influence your deciding whether to rent the place — low-flying jets, overflowing drains or desanctified brothels."
Etymology
From de- + sanctify.