spiritualization
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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
The biggest task before America at the present time is the spiritualization of the vast resources which have been put into our hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aurobindo's vision of a "supramental" human consciousness has often been compared to Teilhard de Chardin's hopes for an ever-increasing spiritualization of man and his world.
From Time Magazine Archive
In thinking passionately of the principle, he forgot the authorship—and sowed beside many waters, if peradventure some chance seedling might take root and bear fruit to the glory of God and the spiritualization of Man.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
In an age so bustling and heedless as this, it were well sometimes to stop and listen to the voice In its fine spiritualizations we shall at least be soothed and may be bettered.
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour
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