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 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
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 Edward Payson Roe
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
He was not enough of an idealist to etherealize her.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read
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
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
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
The intensely rarefied and etherealized atmospheres surrounding that planet would not maintain animal life such as yours.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
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
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
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
Nor must it be imagined that "austerities" as commonly understood can, in the majority of cases, avail much to hasten the "etherealizing" process.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
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