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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2018
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
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 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
Hence, to render cause objective is nothing less than to spiritualize the universe, to suppose everywhere causes similar to ours—it is a kind of universal Fetichism.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
This production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” seems like a gift from the other side, that mysterious, creative realm where history is spiritualized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
We swam together in spiritualized gaslighting, grasping for a life that ought to be enough.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
Or maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
And it is not noble or sublime or spiritualized, as one likes to believe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus intellect began to grow warmer, sensuality to be spiritualized.
From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
From this we gather that none of those ancient men knew anything of the modern system of spiritualizing.
From A Voice of Warning An introduction to the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Parley P. Pratt
Throughout eternity man will be spiritualizing his body, or else degrading it.
From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard la Rue Swain
Be thou a cause for the illumining of hearts and spiritualizing of souls.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
Mr Gladstone’s spiritualizing touch was still to be laid upon the party that he was yet to join.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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