sacralization

English

From sacralize +‎ -ation.

sacralization (countable and uncountable, plural sacralizations)

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

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