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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desacralized
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 case claims Disney violated federal antitrust law and various state antitrust and consumer protection laws.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • The nonprofit, which alleged the county violated the Surplus Lands Act by not first exploring affordable-housing development at the site, still has not dismissed its lawsuit.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 4 July 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
  • Those are the kinds of things that can't be broken into or taken away or desecrated.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • The mission also alleges that evidence was planted and bodies were desecrated.
    Patrick Peralta, The Conversation, 28 May 2026
Adjective
  • Although the film never comes out and says it, Ohm was possibly conceived on these unhallowed grounds, so maybe he was just born cursed.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Yet as the populations there shrink, populations are booming in less prosperous and less secular regions, including Africa and the Middle East.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • The encyclical has attracted serious attention from secular quarters as well.
    Michael Posner, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
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“Desacralized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desacralized. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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