spiritualize
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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
In a country without antique monuments, the image of Arcadia serves to spiritualize the past.
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
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
He came to fill up, to spiritualize and intensify the religious and ethical teaching of the great leaders of the Hebrews.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen
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
Or maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
When he says, "Every spiritualized state grows out of what was originally a non-spiritual one," he is thinking of some sudden stepping-up of the state rather than the slow process called growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Language itself must be spiritualized, and words given a new meaning.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
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 the school as a social unit is, however, not confined to the classroom.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
Throughout eternity man will be spiritualizing his body, or else degrading it.
From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard la Rue Swain
How brilliant the constellation, how spiritualizing the multitude of new thoughts to which it gives birth!
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson
In short, Jesus Christ always attempted to reform by spiritualizing.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Thomas Clarkson
