sacralized

Verb

sacralize (third-person singular simple present sacralizes, present participle sacralizing, simple past and past participle sacralized)

1. 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 website The Pillar, “[...] To say something is sacralized is to say it’s almost taken...2022 June 6, Patrick Jonsson, Noah Robertson, “Has the gun become a sacred object in America?”, in The Christian Science Monitor

   Synonyms:

   sacredize, sanctify, avow, behallow, bless, canonize, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, inaugurate

   Antonyms:

   desacralize, corrupt, defile, desecrate, profanate, profane, profanize, pollute, sully, tarnish