transubstantiation
Example Sentences
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But eat its flesh, drink its sour juice, and it returns us to life — a simple notion that is primitively linked to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.
From Washington Post
Like a high school science project, this three-dimensional precipice of infection had a certain bizarre power, with its transubstantiation of public misery into Styrofoam.
From New York Times
The processions on Corpus Christi commemorate the biblical transubstantiation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.
From Seattle Times
Here Freud’s exactitude comes across as a much more generous act of transubstantiation, as if the body, turned into paint, might live a second life in its reconstituted form.
From New York Times
Through such transubstantiation, many fortunes have passed into enduring civic institutions.
From The New Yorker
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