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resacralize

resacralize verb: to sacralize again; to make holy or sacred again.

Verb

resacralize (third-person singular simple present resacralizes, present participle resacralizing, simple past and past participle resacralized)

  1. To sacralize again; to make holy or sacred again.
    • [T]he artist has returned to create new forms of expression, to resacralize, re-enchant, remythologize.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 4

Forms of resacralize

third-person singular presentresacralizes
present participleresacralizing
past participleresacralized
pastresacralized

Origin of resacralize

From re- + sacralize.

Questions about resacralize

What does resacralize mean?
Resacralize means to sacralize again; to make holy or sacred again.
What part of speech is resacralize?
Resacralize is a verb.
What is the past tense of resacralize?
The past tense of resacralize is resacralized.

Words near resacralize in the dictionary

  1. res.
  2. resaca
  3. resacas
  4. resacetophenone
  5. resacralization
  6. resacralize
  7. resacralized
  8. resacralizes
  9. resacralizing
  10. resacrifice
  11. resacrificed

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