1. to deprive of spiritual quality, meaning, or significance; to make secular or materialistic
Usage: formal; literary

Examples

• Modern consumer culture tends to despiritualize religious holidays by focusing solely on commercial transactions.
• The critic argued that the film despiritualizes the sacred text by reducing it to entertainment.
• Some philosophers worry that technology despiritualizes human relationships.
• The author felt that constant materialism had despiritualizes society's values.
• Reducing art to mere investment despiritualizes its creative purpose.