spiritualize

Example Sentences

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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2018

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

She frenetically tries to spiritualize materialism�to set up a kind of materialist morality in which "money is the root of all good" because it stands for man's creativity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Philo's answer is in fact to spiritualize everything that is material, and universalize everything that is particular.

From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman