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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /seɪkɹəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

名詞

sacralization (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sacralizations)

1. The endowment of something with sacred qualities; making sacred.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 153:

     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.

   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 313:

     The sacralization of arbitrary lines on a map may seem illogical, but there is a rationale to the respecting of norms, even arbitrary and unjustifiable ones.

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

反意語

• desanctification
• desacralization

関連する語

• sacralize