His utopias aren't "nowhere" -- counterfactual examples of how things might be in order to desanctify how things actually are.
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Desanctify
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Dutch
1 entries- ontheiligen verb (to desanctify)
Māori
2 entries- hāparu verb (to desanctify)
- whakanoa verb (to desanctify)
Persian
1 entries- تقدس زدایی کردن verb (to desanctify)
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Christianity desanctifies these in a positive sense by rendering them subservient to an entirely different kind of holiness.
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In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia.
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What qualifies? Anything that could significantly influence your deciding whether to rent the place — low-flying jets, overflowing drains or desanctified brothels.
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