desecularize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

de- +‎ secularize

Verb[edit]

desecularize (third-person singular simple present desecularizes, present participle desecularizing, simple past and past participle desecularized)

  1. (transitive) To make no longer secular; to bring into the sphere of religion.
    • 1993, Thomas R. Flynn, Dalia Judovitz, Dialectic and Narrative, page 127:
      Is Heidegger's theory of the forgetting of Being then an attempt to desecularize the world? And is his interpretation of Dasein to be read as a venture toward reestablishing the grounds for belief?

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