SPIRITUALIZED Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

spiritualized

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past tense of spiritualize

as in baptized

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He had recently been baptized in the North Carolina mountains and felt called to carry the cross up Stone Mountain.

— John Blake, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
Evan Bland said his wife insisted that everyone in the home needed to be baptized in the bathtub.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

Definition of baptized

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Like much of the first half of the episode, before the plane crash, this gala sequence is shot in silky gold colors, as if John and Carolyn had already been sanctified.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
That was until Pope Leo inadvertently sanctified them in 2026.

— Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026

Definition of sanctified

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And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
The amount may be infinitesimal—white sugar and bottled water are sometimes purified with charred animal bones, for instance—but some hypersensitive alpha-gal patients avoid the risk anyway.

— Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

Definition of purified

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The Vatican declared the group of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide in schism after the SSPX consecrated four bishops in Switzerland without Pope Leo XIV’s approval this month.

— Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026
On July 2, the Vatican decreed the excommunication of the SSPX’s bishops and priests, one day after the group consecrated four new bishops in Switzerland without the pope’s consent.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026

Definition of consecrated

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What lies before us is not a world cleansed of fraud, but a world in which the speed of both deception and defense keeps rising, so that the responsibility shared between institutions and individuals grows more important.

— Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
The Beneš Decrees that ethnically cleansed tens of thousands of Hungarians from southern Slovakia after the war are still affecting contemporary Slovak-Hungarian relations today.

— Brett R. Chloupek, The Conversation, 15 July 2026

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