resacralize

Etymology

From re- + sacralize.

resacralize means to sacralize again; to make holy or sacred again. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

RESACRALIZE — [Verb] To restore a sacred character to something, to make holy again. From the English prefix re- ("again") + sacralize (from Latin sacer, "sacred, holy"). Unlike "secularize," which strips away the numinous, or "consecrate," which bestows holiness anew, "resacralize" is an act of defiant recovery. It is the patient scrubbing of graffiti to reveal a temple fresco, the quiet lighting of a candle in a deconsecrated chapel, or the deliberate rewilding of a forgotten lot—a stubborn insistence that meaning can return, that the world is not drained of wonder, only waiting to be seen anew.

verb

To sacralize again; to make holy or sacred again.“[T]he artist has returned to create new forms of expression, to resacralize, re-enchant, remythologize.”