spiritualize
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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
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
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
It is the tone which spiritualizes and quickens the thought; and it is the main object in reading, to spiritualize and quicken thought, to bring it into relation with the spiritual being of the hearer.
From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Hiram Corson
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
We swam together in spiritualized gaslighting, grasping for a life that ought to be enough.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
Wright came up with the name by combining the words “utopia” and “USA,” thereby expressing precisely the kind of spiritualized manifest destiny Henry R. Luce would have applauded.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2014
The Yahwist strand portrays an anthropomorphic deity, the Elohist a spiritualized God.
From Time Magazine Archive
And man is a spiritualized being with brain organs adapted to the expression of ideas that respond to the spiritual state of life.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is marriage, as we see it practically carried out, penetrated with this vivifying and spiritualizing element?
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
Be thou a cause for the illumining of hearts and spiritualizing of souls.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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
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
