Desanctify
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To remove the sanctified status of. transitive
"His utopias aren't "nowhere" -- counterfactual examples of how things might be in order to desanctify how things actually are."
Example
More examples"His utopias aren't "nowhere" -- counterfactual examples of how things might be in order to desanctify how things actually are."
Etymology
From de- + sanctify.
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