transcendentalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to cause to become transcendent.
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to cause to become transcendental; idealize.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of transcendentalize
First recorded in 1840–50; transcendental + -ize
Example Sentences
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In 1938 he transcendentalized: "I am still pro-Chinese and therefore pro-Japanese."
From Time Magazine Archive
But after the mighty heat of day has charged all the blue air with translucent vapor, colors become strangely changed, magnified, transcendentalized when the sun falls once more below the verge of visibility.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
If Shelley indeed owes anything to Endymion here, he has etherealized and transcendentalized his original even more than Keats did Ovid.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
The transcendentalizing of Jewish theology after the Persian period had led inevitably to an elaborate angelology and demonology.
From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
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