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
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 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
It is the tone which spiritualizes and quickens the thought; and it is the main object in reading, to spiritualize and quicken thought, to bring it into relation with the spiritual being of the hearer.
From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Corson, Hiram
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