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单词 desacralize
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Definition of desacralize in English:

desacralize

(British desacralise)
verbdiːˈsakrəlʌɪzdēˈsākrəˌlīz
[with object]
  • Remove the religious or sacred status or significance from.

    we have chosen to desacralize the world through modern science
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The prophetic critique of primal Canaanite religion had the effect of desacralizing nature and divinizing morality.
    • If we desacralize Creation, we desacralize God; if we desecrate nature, we desecrate God.
    • Is our study of the past to be nothing more than an extension of modernity's bulldozing effort to master all of reality, so that time itself is desacralized and made to serve the needs of the Almighty Present?
    • This pure faith erected a wall between our understanding of God and our understanding of nature, and in effect desacralized the natural world.
    • Rather, for totalitarian movements, as he understood them, mass murder became the only manifestation of the sacred possible in a completely desacralized cosmology.
    • The myth is desacralised into an image of a goddess, half-virile, half-playful.
    • He is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
    • ‘When government attempts to rationalize its display of sacred texts by claiming secular purposes and secular effects, the inevitable tendency is to distort and desacralize the sacred text,’ the brief states.
    • In an evocative account vivid with textual detail, she exposes the sexual violence inherent in the discourse that desacralized the monarchy as it denounced ‘the reign of pleasure as privilege, and of pleasure as feminine’.
    • The silence of the artist is like the silence of God, part of a desacralised world which I am terribly happy not to live in.
    • Traditionally then, women are desacralized at the height of their bodily power.
    • Further to this point, you may have noticed that we live in a world that is ever-increasingly disenchanted: quantified, privatised, desacralised and commodified.
    • There is no attempt to desacralize or hold the classics up to ridicule.
    • It is no wonder that even up to our own times the human habitat has been the last bastion to succumb to the desacralizing process.
    • In the privileged moments before his death, Richard thus conceptualizes and exemplifies one of the characteristic outcomes of the desacralized world of modernity.

Derivatives

  • desacralization

  • noun diːsakrəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
    • The historical desacralization of formerly powerful religious imagery also is suggested by the motif of the nursing woman who sits beneath the epitaph.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The desacralization resulting from exaggerated secularization has resulted in a value vacuum which is being filled by a utilitarian ethic.
      • In the former section, ‘secularization’ would refer to the de-objectification of social facts and the normative values associated with them as a result of the desacralization of worldviews.
      • The churches, particularly the bishops of the Catholic Church, were complicit in the desacralization of Sunday as a holy day when they introduced late Saturday afternoon liturgies, called Vigil Masses.
      • An awareness that long before 1789 French people were insulting their king has tempted some historians to write of the desacralization of the monarchy under Louis XV.
 
 

Definition of desacralize in US English:

desacralize

(British desacralise)
verbdēˈsākrəˌlīz
[with object]
  • Remove the religious or sacred status or significance from.

    we have chosen to desacralize the world through modern science
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rather, for totalitarian movements, as he understood them, mass murder became the only manifestation of the sacred possible in a completely desacralized cosmology.
    • Traditionally then, women are desacralized at the height of their bodily power.
    • Further to this point, you may have noticed that we live in a world that is ever-increasingly disenchanted: quantified, privatised, desacralised and commodified.
    • He is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
    • This pure faith erected a wall between our understanding of God and our understanding of nature, and in effect desacralized the natural world.
    • It is no wonder that even up to our own times the human habitat has been the last bastion to succumb to the desacralizing process.
    • The silence of the artist is like the silence of God, part of a desacralised world which I am terribly happy not to live in.
    • ‘When government attempts to rationalize its display of sacred texts by claiming secular purposes and secular effects, the inevitable tendency is to distort and desacralize the sacred text,’ the brief states.
    • The prophetic critique of primal Canaanite religion had the effect of desacralizing nature and divinizing morality.
    • If we desacralize Creation, we desacralize God; if we desecrate nature, we desecrate God.
    • In the privileged moments before his death, Richard thus conceptualizes and exemplifies one of the characteristic outcomes of the desacralized world of modernity.
    • Is our study of the past to be nothing more than an extension of modernity's bulldozing effort to master all of reality, so that time itself is desacralized and made to serve the needs of the Almighty Present?
    • The myth is desacralised into an image of a goddess, half-virile, half-playful.
    • There is no attempt to desacralize or hold the classics up to ridicule.
    • In an evocative account vivid with textual detail, she exposes the sexual violence inherent in the discourse that desacralized the monarchy as it denounced ‘the reign of pleasure as privilege, and of pleasure as feminine’.
 
 
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