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Sacralization

//seɪkɹəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The endowment of something with sacred qualities; making sacred. countable, uncountable

    "The spirituality of hunters and gatherers is a sacralization of everyday life, but once we move to maintain a formal priesthood, we also move to split experience into the sacred and the profane."

  2. 2
    A developmental abnormality in which the first sacral vertebra becomes fused with the fifth lumbar veterbra. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From sacralize + -ation.

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