etherealize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make or regard as being ethereal
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to add ether to or make into ether or something resembling ether
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At midnight few scenes could be more calm and beautiful, so tenderly did the light of the moon soften and etherealize everything.
From His Sombre Rivals by Roe, Edward Payson
He was not enough of an idealist to etherealize her.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
Study Perugino and Raphael, see how they raise human nature and etherealize it till we see the divinity of soul in the faces of their saints and martyrs.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Kendrick, Flora
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual, the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.—Beecher.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
He was well aware of the proportions of things; he had no despair of the Idea, nor would he despair should the Idea etherealize and fly away.
From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
They were etherealized through delicate pastels, and while Brundage created images to appeal to the male gaze, she also could portray women as purposeful agents rather than passive victims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
It would alter abstract painting itself, since his preoccupation with surge and flow got across to Pollock and, much etherealized, led to Pollock's invention of "all-over" abstraction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patrick O'Neal's Shannon seems half eaten away by the termites of moral corruption, and Margaret Leighton's Hannah is an etherealized vision of grace and gravity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The far more important part of the indivisible phrase 'war peace aims' is still etherealized in the Atlantic Charter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before that day arrives humanity will become etherealized, spirit-like, and super-mundane.
From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by Davies, R. Rice
While the paintings represent chic, modern women who belong to a world of elegance and luxury, they also have the effect of exoticizing and etherealizing their subjects.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2016
Much as he might have liked to strip down to bare revelations, Meredith, a tailor's son to the end, settled for a costume change, etherealizing passion and abstracting love into a distant, chaste project.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he was the son of a poet with an admirable gift of individualising, of etherealizing the common-place; of making touching, delicate, fascinating the most hopeless conventions of the, so-called, refined existence.
From Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Conrad, Joseph
It has been said, consumption sublimates the mind, stealing from the body, etherealizing and intensifying the intellect.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry
The moon, nearly full, had risen in the gap of the Highlands, and had now climbed well above the mountains, softening and etherealizing them until every harsh, rugged outline was lost.
From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson
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