enshrining
Preserving with reverence
Enshrining is preserving something in a place of honor or protection.
Laws enshrine rights by formally establishing them: The First Amendment enshrines freedom of speech.
Memories can be enshrined in monuments, traditions in rituals.
The word suggests both reverence and permanence—what gets enshrined is meant to last and be respected.
Act of honoring memory
- tributeOffering of respect
- venerationProfound admiring respect
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- homageExpression of deep respect
dedication · ceremony · memorial · sanctification · glorification · exaltation · consecration · canonization
Maintaining something's condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- safeguardingPreventing harm or loss
- protectionGuarding against harm
- perpetuatingCausing to persist indefinitely
codifying · embedding · institutionalizing · formalizing · documenting · recording · archiving · memorializing
commemoration
Act of honoring memory
- tributeOffering of respect
- venerationProfound admiring respect
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
homage · dedication · ceremony · memorial · sanctification · glorification · exaltation · consecration · canonization · beatification
preservation
Maintaining something's condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- safeguardingPreventing harm or loss
- protectionGuarding against harm
perpetuating · codifying · embedding · institutionalizing · formalizing · documenting · recording · archiving · memorializing · entrenching
- formalizingformalizing, institutionalizing, officializing, establishing, codifying
- glorificationglorifying, glorification, exalting, exaltation, idolizing
- approvalsapproved, approve, authorizing, certification, endorsing
enshriningdesecrating
Violating something sacred
defiling · profaning · blaspheming · sacrilege · violating
enshriningdiscarding
Removing what's unwanted
forgetting · abandoning · erasing · obliterating · neglecting
enshriningabolishing
Formally ending something
repealing · nullifying · revoking · rescinding · overturning
shrine, enshrine, shrines, enshrined, enshrines, enshrinement