sacralize
to make sacred
Verb
- to make sacred
- Bishop Daniel Flores of the Brownsville Diocese in Texas recently wrote on Twitter that Americans “sacralize death’s instruments, and then are surprised that death uses them.” [...] Bishop Flores told the Catholic...
Synonyms: sacredize sanctify avow behallow bless canonize consecrate dedicate hallow inaugurate martyr sacralize sacrate saint
Antonyms: desacralize corrupt defile desecrate profanate profane profanize pollute sully tarnish violate
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 From sacral + -ize.