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

She frenetically tries to spiritualize materialism�to set up a kind of materialist morality in which "money is the root of all good" because it stands for man's creativity.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a country without antique monuments, the image of Arcadia serves to spiritualize the past.

From Time Magazine Archive

The goddess said that the aerial ship was the symbol of an ideal and passionate temperament resolved on discovering new spheres of spiritual beauty, so as to spiritualize the race.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard