as in to bless
to make holy through prayers or ritual
sacralizing the cohabitation of a man and a woman by means of the marriage ceremony
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Recent Examples of sacralize
The coronation merely confirms and sacralizes his inheritance.
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Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
Winner had signed up for that life, where all knowledge was guarded, sacralized under the official regime of secrecy.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
Winner had signed up for that life, where all knowledge was guarded, sacralized under the official regime of secrecy.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacralize
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During the visit, the Dalai Lama blessed a 3-foot-tall Bodhi tree for the campus.—
Lou Ponsi,
Orange County Register,
11 Feb. 2025
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Giants fans are allowed to forget for the moment that their team is also in the same division as the Commanders and Jayden Daniels, a gifted rookie quarterback who is going to be a star for the next decade and, if blessed with good health, for much longer than that.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2025
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The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.—
Kary Love,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Griswold—whose father, once the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, consecrated the denomination’s first openly gay bishop—treats the pastors generously, though gingerly, constructing from their lowest moments an affecting study of sacred life in sacrilegious times.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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God is so intimately present to his friends, the saints, that their very bodies are sanctified by his presence.—
Therese Cory,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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Then, having contributed to the destruction of their careers and livelihoods, he, along with a fellow House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) informant, the screenwriter Budd Schulberg, made On the Waterfront, a film that not only defends but sanctifies informants.—
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23 Nov. 2024
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“Sacralize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacralize. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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