spiritualization
Americannoun
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the act of making something spiritual.
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the act of investing something, such as a narrative or one of its elements, with a spiritual meaning as opposed to a literal or historical one.
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Others are lured in through Instagram, where he posts heady photo carousels on topics like “the story of the spiritualization of capitalism.”
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022
It is the spiritualization of his success — what some believe to be a marketing ploy — that has produced an ample amount of eye-rolling.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2014
Aurobindo's vision of a "supramental" human consciousness has often been compared to Teilhard de Chardin's hopes for an ever-increasing spiritualization of man and his world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simone de Beauvoir carefully weighs the few whose testimony treats old age as a period of spiritualization.
From Time Magazine Archive
The highest perfection of natural philosophy would consist in the perfect spiritualization of all the laws of nature into laws of intuition and intellect.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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