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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He was not enough of an idealist to etherealize her.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read
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 Sara Jeannette Duncan
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 Flora Kendrick
We shall not have to wait long for the answer to a question which has stirred the heart of mankind to its foundations—can Women etherealize society?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
Angels, as some represent them, even in whole lengths, are by anatomists regarded as monsters; but what then are the chubby winged heads without bodies, with which some artists etherealize their works.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various
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
The far more important part of the indivisible phrase 'war peace aims' is still etherealized in the Atlantic Charter.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time Gabriel Pascal saw her, plain living and plenty of walking had etherealized the dumpling to that lithe spirit which Pascal singled out.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is dreamland, painted in the imagination’s most delicate tints; it is color etherealized.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Fridtjof Nansen
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
Her soul seemed to be flashing through the rare loveliness of her face and etherealizing its beauty.
From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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 Edward Payson Roe
They appealed to the spirit of St Paul; he answered that Augustine had saved that spirit from etherealizing away, by coupling it with a high sacramental theory of the Church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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