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spiritualize

American  
[spir-i-choo-uh-lahyz] / ˈspɪr ɪ tʃu əˌlaɪz /
especially British, spiritualise

verb (used with object)

spiritualized, spiritualizing
  1. to make spiritual.

  2. to invest with a spiritual meaning.


spiritualize British  
/ ˈspɪrɪtjʊəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to make spiritual or infuse with spiritual content

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

First recorded in 1625–35; spiritual + -ize

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The monk Athenaय perceives in a vision that his mission is to spiritualize Thaïs, to make her the bride of Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

However it omit to spiritualize it does not degrade.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar