spiritualize
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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
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
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
Revelation must subdue the sophistry of intellect, and spiritualize consciousness with the dictum and the demonstration of Truth and Love.
From No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy
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
We swam together in spiritualized gaslighting, grasping for a life that ought to be enough.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
When he says, "Every spiritualized state grows out of what was originally a non-spiritual one," he is thinking of some sudden stepping-up of the state rather than the slow process called growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
His was the spiritualized mysticism of a Teresa or a John of the Cross, with little of the conventional piety of Murillo.
From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spiritual life will never be more real to the child than it is to us, and no amount of moralizing or spiritualizing about our acts or his will give them religious significance.
From Religious Education in the Family by Henry Frederick Cope
With the advent of modern spiritualism in 1848, came the first opportunity to bring woman forward as a teacher and leader in the great work of elevating and spiritualizing the masses.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson
Instead of spiritualizing an innate impulse, it merely disguises it.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson
The result was a wide-spread condemnation of the spiritualizing teaching of the great Alexandrian, and the rise of what might be called an anthropomorphic traditionalism.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Joseph Cullen Ayer
