spiritualize
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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
It also did so on a grander scale, binding an immense continent with tracks and producing trains of such magnificence that they moved Nathaniel Hawthorne to exclaim: "They spiritualize travel!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The monk Athenaय perceives in a vision that his mission is to spiritualize Thaïs, to make her the bride of Christ.
From Time Magazine Archive
Skeptical of progress, Cole painted the landscape as Arcadia, which served to spiritualize the past in a land without antique monuments.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will be conceived as the means for the expression of those various loyalties which will ennoble and spiritualize life.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
This production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” seems like a gift from the other side, that mysterious, creative realm where history is spiritualized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
In their churches, food banks, recovery services and community meetings, local NAR leaders offer individual and highly spiritualized explanations for this country’s systemic crises of poverty, homelessness, hunger and addiction.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2025
We swam together in spiritualized gaslighting, grasping for a life that ought to be enough.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
The Yahwist strand portrays an anthropomorphic deity, the Elohist a spiritualized God.
From Time Magazine Archive
Could there be any better test than reading, of a student's knowledge of the organic structure of the language, and the extent to which the thought is spiritualized?
From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Hiram Corson
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spiritualizing influence of this intellectual work, carries with it the compensation of a great reward.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson
Consider then how the enlightening and spiritualizing power of divine religions impels the believers to such heights of perfection that a philosopher like Galen, not himself a Christian, offers such testimony.
From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá
Instead of spiritualizing an innate impulse, it merely disguises it.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson
That is what is meant when we speak of spiritualizing the feelings.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
