spiritualization
Americannoun
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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
Simone de Beauvoir carefully weighs the few whose testimony treats old age as a period of spiritualization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Ward links Rilke to Teilhard de Chardin and his conception of man's part in the ultimate goal of evolution�"the spiritualization of the earth."
From Time Magazine Archive
The result of all this is a refinement of methods, a resort to subtler contrivances, and a spiritualization of the scheme of symbolism in dress.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
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