spiritualize

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2018

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

However it omit to spiritualize it does not degrade.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar