"desanctify" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1991 September 22, Alan Trachtenberg, “UNIVERSITY PRESSES; Shaping America's Dreams in Chicago”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "His utopias aren't \"nowhere\" -- counterfactual examples of how things might be in order to desanctify how things actually are.",
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          "text": "Christianity desanctifies these in a positive sense by rendering them subservient to an entirely different kind of holiness.",
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          "ref": "2008, Jennifer Summit, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England, page 170:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2009 October 29, Randy Cohen, “Our Home Was a Bawdy House”, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "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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        "To remove the sanctified status of."
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        "(transitive) To remove the sanctified status of."
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          "word": "desacralize"
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          "sense": "to desanctify",
          "word": "ontheiligen"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to desanctify",
          "word": "hāparu"
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          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "to desanctify",
          "word": "whakanoa"
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          "code": "fa",
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          "sense": "to desanctify",
          "word": "تقدس زدایی کردن"
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      "sense": "to desanctify",
      "word": "ontheiligen"
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "to desanctify",
      "word": "hāparu"
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      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to desanctify",
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      "sense": "to desanctify",
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