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desecularizing

desecularizing is the present participle and gerund of desecularize.

Meaning of desecularize

Verb

desecularize (third-person singular simple present desecularizes, present participle desecularizing, simple past and past participle desecularized)

  1. (transitive) To make no longer secular; to bring into the sphere of religion.
    • Is Heidegger's theory of the forgetting of Being then an attempt to desecularize the world? And is his interpretation of Dasein to be read as a venture toward reestablishing the grounds for belief?1993, Thomas R. Flynn, Dalia Judovitz, Dialectic and Narrative, page 127
    Synonyms:
    unsecularize

Questions about desecularizing

What is desecularizing the present participle and gerund of?
Desecularizing is the present participle and gerund of desecularize.

Words near desecularizing in the dictionary

  1. desecularization
  2. desecularizations
  3. desecularize
  4. desecularized
  5. desecularizes
  6. desecularizing
  7. deseed
  8. deseeded
  9. deseeder
  10. deseeders
  11. deseeding

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