as in to sanctify
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Recent Examples of spiritualize
None of this is intended to take away from the ambivalent and sometimes plainly harmful effects of attempts to spiritualize the pandemic.
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Benjamin Kirby,
Quartz Africa,
1 May 2020
Thought and speech — thought’s public projection — are both combined and spiritualized.
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Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
22 June 2019
The biblical Song of Solomon is a key scripture for the Zohar, and its lush gardens of desire are spiritualized into realms of sacred love, but without losing anything of their erotic passion.
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Arthur Green,
The Atlantic,
25 Aug. 2017
Benjamin Kirby,
Quartz Africa,
1 May 2020
Thought and speech — thought’s public projection — are both combined and spiritualized.
—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
22 June 2019
The biblical Song of Solomon is a key scripture for the Zohar, and its lush gardens of desire are spiritualized into realms of sacred love, but without losing anything of their erotic passion.
—
Arthur Green,
The Atlantic,
25 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritualize
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But far from celebrating or sanctifying the throwing off of English rule, the story’s shocking ending portrays the patriots as a fiendish mob, and casts doubt on the bedrock American faith in prosperity.
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When a couple marry in a church, synagogue or mosque, the ceremony does more than sanctify a union.
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Evan Bland said his wife insisted that everyone in the home needed to be baptized in the bathtub.
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Want to swim, bike, hike, kayak and get baptized all in one place?
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Generations of cinephiles promoted a version of Agee’s catechism, consecrating Griffith as film’s supreme technical and aesthetic innovator, an almost Promethean figure.
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By visiting the Basilica and blessing the new tower, the pope follows in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI who in 2010 consecrated the Sagrada Familia.
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The coronation merely confirms and sacralizes his inheritance.
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But that doesn’t matter because that’s been purified.
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Local residents were urged to limit their exposure by remaining indoors with their windows and doors closed and advised to run air conditioning or air purifying units, where possible.
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Naturally, there’s a spa too, specializing in hammam rituals that include a foam massage and hair cleansing to wash out that Bosphorus brine.
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Once your makeup is removed and your face is cleansed, add a hydrating cream like the All About Eyes Lightweight Eye Cream, then use the De-Puffing Eye Roller in the morning to awaken and brighten your eyes for the day.
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This is the Tricky sound canonized.
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After her death she was canonized by the Catholic Church and recognized as the patron saint of immigrants.
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Time will tell if Clark is among those hallowed few.
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Yet, these grounds were hallowed to the African American community.
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“Spiritualize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritualize. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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