Spiritualizes

Word SPIRITUALIZES
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Definitions and meanings of "Spiritualizes"

What do we mean by spiritualizes?

To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.

To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.

To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.

To extract spirit.

To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

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The word "spiritualizes" in example sentences

If the group spiritualizes the prediction – by saying it was a spiritual test that the group passed because of its faith – it can actually strengthen a group, she said. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Matthew's Jesus spiritualizes them: Blessed are poor in spirit ... ❋ Matt J. Rossano (2010)

Because of our common humanity we should be inclined to help our fellowmen, our neighbors, but the Christian law spiritualizes this natural inclination, by commanding us to help our neighbor because he is God's child. ❋ Argent (2006)

The food tastes so good because it is first offered to Krishna, who spiritualizes it-- we believe that you can make spiritual advancement just by eating food offered to Krishna. ❋ Sam Jordison (2006)

The slave spiritualizes these ordeals, no matter how crude and painful. ❋ Rice, Anne (1984)

Spirit -- whereas that which commences in the region of the Spirit, spiritualizes the senses in which it subsequently stirs emotion. ❋ Frederick W. Robertson (N/A)

Hope spiritualizes the earth; Hope makes it always new; and, even in the earth’s best and brightest aspect, Hope shows it to be only the shadow of an infinite bliss hereafter! ❋ Christine M. Keck (N/A)

It spiritualizes his character, and it makes him mighty in action. ❋ J. M. Judy (N/A)

All mystic literature, when read with the eyes of understanding, exalts and spiritualizes sex. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The cheek was, perhaps, slightly sunken, but it could not be more pallid than when last beheld; and but for that nameless quietude -- that "rapture of repose," as Lord Byron well expresses it -- that placid languor which sleeps on the features, which illness always creates and which spiritualizes and intellectualizes the most common features, the invalid might be supposed to be enjoying the most quiet slumber. ❋ Edmund Flagg (N/A)

This light in his eyes spiritualizes a countenance which otherwise would be brutal, with its big mustache bristling above a very prominent, dominant jaw. ❋ Laughlin, Clara E (1918)

It spiritualizes the irresistible impulse which draws one man to another, and it raises the social connection of human beings from the sphere of a convention to that of a moral obligation. ❋ 1851-1930 (1908)

Hope spiritualizes the earth; Hope makes it always new; and, even in the earth's best and brightest aspect, ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)

The brilliant blue water sparkles under the hot sun, or adds one more tint to the exquisite hues which make of the sky one vast, gleaming fire-opal on those marvelous "white nights" when darkness never descends to a depth beyond the point where it leaves all objects with natural forms and colors, and only spiritualizes them with the gentle vagueness of a translucent veil. ❋ Isabel Florence Hapgood (1889)

It spiritualizes punishment; substituting mental for bodily pains. ❋ William De Witt Hyde (1887)

But it must be admitted that the more the mind spiritualizes and generalizes itself, the less hold it has on other minds, which no longer understand it or know what to do with it. ❋ Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel (1885)

Sir Oliver Lodge is apparently so impressed with some such considerations that he spiritualizes life, and makes it some mysterious entity in itself, existing apart from the matter which it animates and uses; not a source of energy but a timer and releaser of energy. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

Bergson deifies or spiritualizes life as a psychic, creative principle, and makes matter its instrument or vehicle. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

Man ennobles, spiritualizes, nature, and makes it into his spiritual possession, into his freely-formed home, — and in forming nature he appropriates it at the same time to himself. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)

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