hypostatize

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Yet if Mars is a hypostatized version of earthly nature, separate from humans, it is also something we’ve projected ourselves onto—and are already laying waste to.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2021

They hypostatized unconsciously any force of nature that overawed them or filled them with gratefulness and joy by its beneficent or aesthetic character, and adored it.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

The first is a hypostatized legend, the second a metaphysical personification, the third a philosophical hypothesis.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

With the Absolute, an entity stripped of perceptible qualities, an "hypostatized negation," he could have no traffic.

From Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch by Huxley, Leonard

Though reduced to a hypostatized negation, Brahma was not to be trusted; so long as entity was there, it might conceivably resume the weary round of evolution, with all its train of immeasurable miseries.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry