spiritualize
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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
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
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
There seems great need of something that shall have power to spiritualize mankind, and make head against the reinforced influence of material things.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
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
Or maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
Maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
The Yahwist strand portrays an anthropomorphic deity, the Elohist a spiritualized God.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the expression of Freyer's, but spiritualized, and as single sunbeams dance upon a dark flood, it seemed as if golden rays from his mother's sparkling orbs had leaped into his.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another theory of spiritualizing democracy, no less familiar to the student of nineteen-century literature, is what is called "the divine average" doctrine of Walt Whitman.
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Bliss Perry
He began with dreamy music; it was heavy with odors, at first, drugged with sense, then spiritualizing into strange, delicate fancies.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various
Livingstone gave it the glamour of his spiritualizing influence.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
All worthy education means the spiritualizing of the body.
From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard la Rue Swain
