sacralize
sacralise BrE

She added: "But here we go, to sacralize once more womanhood in such ways.

What DeLay and Blunt did was to sacralize this relationship.

Activists came to the antislavery cause, Goodman argues, in order to "sacralize everyday life."

His approach to this topic, particularly in his work 'The Human Factor' is to sacralize the process of evolution.

Rocks were deployed to sacralize space, to make it special, to signal human endeavor and mark the natural world with inimitable human presence.

The tendency is to sacralize the few remaining stands of old-growth redwoods, to think of them as cathedrals.

Protestants developed what they called the "Social Gospel" to sacralize the Godless cities and factories.

Although the Children of Peace tried to sacralize the pure giving of alms, they found charity created difficulties for recipients.

An important symbol among the Nri religion was the omu, a tender palm frond, used to sacralize and restrain.

Many religions have special spellings for the food, which sacralize it and, therefore, who will eat it; but there are foods sacred by its inner nature.

He cites a few examples of efforts to sacralize the catastrophe, asking how many Jews choose the word "awe" to describe "their emotions when contemplating the Holocaust."

From the cosmic point of view, we need urgently to sacralize our own dangerously secular technologies, if we are to respect the world that these technologies open up to us.

The quasi-religious ceremonial which surrounded Franco's attendance at both events served both to sacralize power and to secularize religion, making the two indivisible in the person of Francisco Franco.

Those who sacralize law and order (including liberal opponents of Operation Rescue and the militia movement) are described as "Hobbesians" for whom the state's monopoly of violence is an end in itself.

One of the advantages of the identity model of religion is that it trains the observer to look for secular substitutes or for the tendency to sacralize by agencies other than the religious organizations.

The orthodox Christian saw Christ not as one who leads souls out of this world into enlightenment, but as "fullness of God" come down into human experience-into bodily experience-to sacralize it.

And she demonstrates how the Army's impulse to sacralize the public spaces of the entire city ("the cathedral of the open air") gave it a powerful appeal, even to elites who admired it at arm's length.

Many of the inscriptions during this period are Christian symbols, such as crosses and keys, that were joined and overlapped with those considered pagan symbols, in the background, in an attempt to sacralize these places.

A professor of anthropology and comparative literature at the City University of New York, he is no stranger to religious practices, to the way human beings sacralize social institutions or traditions, to the role religious faith plays in giving society meaning and purpose.

I refer not to the concert music composed by Americans (which Americans don't care about anyway) but to the deification of (European) masterpieces and performers - to a tendency to "sacralize" art and artists more pronounced in the New World than in the Old.

Whereas modernist art sought to redeem and sacralize the world, to give life to world (we might say, following Graff, to give the world back the enchantment that science and the decline of religion had taken away from it), postmodernist art bestows upon the world a "deathly quality."