spiritualize

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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

In a country without antique monuments, the image of Arcadia serves to spiritualize the past.

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 Sellars, Roy Wood