desanctify

verb

1. (transitive)To remove the sanctified status of.

   “His utopias aren't "nowhere" -- counterfactual examples of how things might be in order to desanctify how things actually are.”

   “Christianity desanctifies these in a positive sense by rendering them subservient to an entirely different kind of holiness.”

   “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.”

   “What qualifies? Anything that could significantly influence your deciding whether to rent the place — low-flying jets, overflowing drains or desanctified brothels.”