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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
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
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
The Christ principles properly interpreted and applied would spiritualize a broom and duster and all the utensils of a home or the tools of a trade.
From The Colored Girl Beautiful by E. Azalia Hackley
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
In their churches, food banks, recovery services and community meetings, local NAR leaders offer individual and highly spiritualized explanations for this country’s systemic crises of poverty, homelessness, hunger and addiction.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2025
Maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
When he says, "Every spiritualized state grows out of what was originally a non-spiritual one," he is thinking of some sudden stepping-up of the state rather than the slow process called growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is true of the transferred and spiritualized as well as of the immediate and material meaning of these expressions of value.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
Catholicism has given Waugh the unifying influence and the spiritualizing force whose workings are evident in Brideshead.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spiritualizing influence of the school as a social unit is, however, not confined to the classroom.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
Marriage, in its truest type, is love spiritualizing life; the union of the mightiest and subtlest forces working the noblest results.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
It is also held by some of the Fathers, who attribute to sanctifying grace both a deifying and a spiritualizing power.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
In short, Jesus Christ always attempted to reform by spiritualizing.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Thomas Clarkson
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