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Origin of spiritualize
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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2018
It also did so on a grander scale, binding an immense continent with tracks and producing trains of such magnificence that they moved Nathaniel Hawthorne to exclaim: "They spiritualize travel!"
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
It helped to elevate and spiritualize woman and lift her offspring and the generations of men to a higher spiritual plane.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward
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