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Verb- To sanctify or make holy by means of a religious sanction.

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Usage examples (10)
  • Verb (used with object), : a society that sacralized science
  • Nobel Peace Prizes have been mostly this way, only as domestic movements mostly use religious language as well as imagery -- like putting to genocide -- to "sacralize"...
  • My worry is that by making a taboo out of the word, we actually sacralize it in a way.
  • The victims of this war are the same dark-skinned people whose deaths we ignore in order to sacralize our own, far less numerous ones.
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