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
Miss Ward links Rilke to Teilhard de Chardin and his conception of man's part in the ultimate goal of evolution�"the spiritualization of the earth."
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
In general, it shows the development and growth of love from its lower to higher forms and the upward effect of that spiritualization upon the life of the earth.
From The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition by Perry, Stella George Stern
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