Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

desacralize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-sacral-ize
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To remove the sacredness of.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"If whiteness bespoke purity and godliness, then poor white trash implied an ungodly, desacralized, polluted whiteness."
"Still, certain programmatic commitments [of avant-garde art] can be identified: championing the volatile eventness of corporeal performances, […] consciously embracing the desacralizing and subversive, and disrupting conventional norms by placing the strange and unexpected in otherwise banal places."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English sacral Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English sacralize English desacralize From de- + sacralize.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

desacralizes (present, singular) desacralizing (participle, present) desacralized (participle, past) desacralized (past) desacralise (alternative)

Derived Forms

desacralization

Synonyms

desanctify desecrate secularize

Antonyms

sacralize

Questions

What does desacralize mean?: To remove the sacredness of.
Where does desacralize come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English sacral Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English sacralize English desacralize From de- + sacralize.

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