Wiktionary
vb. To remove the sanctified status of.
Usage examples of "desanctify".
I simply must find a way to desanctify Prince Rupert so we can both be quit of this Mother-forsaken place.
Hellfire Club carried out their threat to desanctify it with the spilled blood of innocents.
He swallows the absurd, if oft-repeated, opinion that the JudeoChristian religion desanctifies the world and places mankind in oppressive domination over it.
Like a priest who finds his church has been summarily desanctified, he had nowhere to go except to these hidey-holes, anonymous places with no aesthetic value, as if he were this same priest forced to conduct services in the basement of an office building.
Other churches in the city had been desanctified and were being used as stables, or converted into handsome town houses.
It was Saint Something-or-Other, one of the great majority of churches long ago renamed 'museums', desanctified and euthenized by cultural restoration.