verb
Other Word Forms
- despiritualization noun
- despiritualize verb (used with object)
- respiritualize verb (used with object)
- spiritualization noun
- spiritualizer noun
- unspiritualized adjective
- unspiritualizing adjective
Etymology
Origin of spiritualize
Example Sentences
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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2018
Skeptical of progress, Cole painted the landscape as Arcadia, which served to spiritualize the past in a land without antique monuments.
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The monk Athenaय perceives in a vision that his mission is to spiritualize Thaïs, to make her the bride of Christ.
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She frenetically tries to spiritualize materialism�to set up a kind of materialist morality in which "money is the root of all good" because it stands for man's creativity.
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However it omit to spiritualize it does not degrade.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
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