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
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
It helped to elevate and spiritualize woman and lift her offspring and the generations of men to a higher spiritual plane.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
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
And it is not noble or sublime or spiritualized, as one likes to believe.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is true of the transferred and spiritualized as well as of the immediate and material meaning of these expressions of value.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
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 this intellectual work, carries with it the compensation of a great reward.
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
Mr Gladstone’s spiritualizing touch was still to be laid upon the party that he was yet to join.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
The place, then, of literature in our common school education is in spiritualizing life, letting light into the mind, inspiring and feeding the higher forces of human nature.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry
