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spiritualize

especially British, 辱····

[spir-i-choo-uh-lahyz]

verb (used with object)

spiritualized, spiritualizing 
  1. to make spiritual.

  2. to invest with a spiritual meaning.



spiritualize

/ ˈɪɪʊəˌɪ /

verb

  1. (tr) to make spiritual or infuse with spiritual content

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • spiritualization noun
  • spiritualizer noun
  • despiritualization noun
  • despiritualize verb (used with object)
  • respiritualize verb (used with object)
  • unspiritualized adjective
  • unspiritualizing adjective
  • ˌ辱ٳܲˈپDz noun
  • ˈ辱ٳܲˌ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of spiritualize1

First recorded in 1625–35; spiritual + -ize
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

Maybe they grew rapidly because her suffering was spiritualized away.

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He added, “There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualizing of the soul.”

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Some white churches “have the luxury to say, ‘Let’s just spiritualize everything and not get involved in politics,’” Alick said.

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But there is a genuine threat to democracy when citizens spiritualize their political differences.

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For these adherents, Christianity is a kind of spiritualized trolling of the modern world that gives them a vehicle to promote a particular vision — usually white, usually Western — of pre-modernity.

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