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 Read, Opie Percival
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
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
She would seek to improve on Nature's handiwork; she would etherealize it, make it so dainty that it would become poetry instead of the beautiful plain language the universal mother sometimes speaks.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George
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
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
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
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
According to others, he was a brave, disinterested and reverend patriot; a sort of Hofer-cum-Tell individual, etherealized by the sanctity of his vocation.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
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 Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
A soft mist was etherealizing the bald realities of the native city.
From There was a King in Egypt by Lorimer, Norma
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
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