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desacralized

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verb

past tense of desacralize
as in violated
to remove the sacred qualities or status of complained that contemporary society has desacralized and trivialized the celebration of Christmas

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Adjective
  • The rest hail from all over, and while the city’s cultural pull makes leisure guests the large majority, the huge gardens and event spaces like the Conventino, a deconsecrated 19th century church adjoining Palazzo del Nero, mean that the hotel is a popular venue too for social and corporate events.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Giuditta Brozzetti founded this atelier inside a deconsecrated church in the 1920s in order to help local women earn a living by weaving textiles.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • The goal is to end an investigation into whether the companies violated federal antitrust laws by coordinating boycotts against social media platforms, most notably X, according to the Wall Street Journal.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • He was later assigned several other weapons cases and ruled in each one that the state law in question violated the Second Amendment.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Beyond the number of cillíní and burial sites uncovered, the practices surrounding these unconsecrated grounds reveal a complex emotional landscape marked by grief, shame, and trauma, according to the press release.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Her fiancé killed himself out of grief and was buried nearby on unconsecrated ground.
    Joe Kloc, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • More synagogues in Canada in the past 28 months have been desecrated, burned, shot at, or threatened with bombings than in any other country.
    Jesse Brown, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Officials determined that a total of 26 underground vaults and mausoleums were broken into or desecrated from November 2025 until the day Gerlach was caught.
    Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Cripple Iran's ability to threaten its neighbors, spur a popular uprising in Iran, and then conduct regime change, leaving in place a secular leader.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The secular story on big-cap tech—the margins, the cash flow, the AI tailwind—was never in doubt.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Desacralized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desacralized. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.

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