sacralization
The endowment of something with sacred qualities; making sacred.
Noun
- The endowment of something with sacred qualities; making sacred.
- The spirituality of hunters and gatherers is a sacralization of everyday life, but once we move to maintain a formal priesthood, we also move to split experience into the sacred and the profane. - 1981, William Irwin...
- The sacralization of arbitrary lines on a map may seem illogical, but there is a rationale to the respecting of norms, even arbitrary and unjustifiable ones. - 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature,...
- A developmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra.
Origin
Etymology tree English sacral Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English sacralize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English sacralization From sacralize + -ation.