spiritualize

Example Sentences

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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

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 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

Hence, to render cause objective is nothing less than to spiritualize the universe, to suppose everywhere causes similar to ours—it is a kind of universal Fetichism.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various