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Spiritualize

verb
(past & past part. spiritualized; pres. part. spiritualizing)
1.
Give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense.  Synonym: spiritualise.
2.
Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration.  Synonyms: glorify, transfigure.
3.
Purify from the corrupting influences of the world.  Synonym: spiritualise.






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"Spiritualize" Quotes from Famous Books



... is to spiritualize thought and action. The demonstrations of Jesus annulled the claims of matter, and overruled laws material as emphatically as they ...
— Unity of Good • Mary Baker Eddy

... impulses bringing its cause to a termination. It may, however, be made permanent by such an appropriation of the product as will re-act to keep the cause alive. That is to say, materialize a passion, and you destroy its power, its flame dies in the damps of indulgence; but spiritualize a passion, and you perpetuate its power, its flame becomes a spur, pricking ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... Truth and Love. I envy not the one who looks with a cold and indifferent spirit on these immortal creations of the old masters—these poems written in marble and on the canvass. They who oppose every thing which can refine and spiritualize the nature of man, by binding him down to the cares of the work-day world alone, cheat ...
— Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor



Words linked to "Spiritualize" :   alter, change, purge, transfigure, literalize, modify, purify, spiritualization, glorify, construe, see, sanctify, spiritualise, interpret



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