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Definition of Idealizing
1. idealize [v] - See also: idealize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealizing
Literary usage of Idealizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"idealizing Were you a gentle Zephyr, And Ia Summer's Rose, I would woo you to my
bower— You should kiss no other flower, And when weary you should rest ..."
2. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1892)
"... one constructive, the other destructive — The first process, the idealizing
of God — The second process, the emancipation of the idea from all relations ..."
3. The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth by Theodore Parker, Frances Power Cobbe (1872)
"idealizing FORCES. all need something to idealize and beautify our life. ...
But the most powerful of all these idealizing forces, and the most beautiful ..."
4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"Mrs. Gatty is a very successful writer for young people, although she somewhat
lacks that light, idealizing touch which is the charm of George ..."
5. Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-legal Study by Richard Krafft-Ebing, Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1894)
"In its inception it is platonic, and turns to forms of poetry and romance.
With the awakening of sensuality there is danger that this idealizing ..."
6. Psychology of the Religious Life by George Malcolm Stratton (1911)
"CHAPTER XXIII THE idealizing ACT IT is a mark of human nature—though the same
trait appears in life still lower—to transform its neighbourhood. ..."
7. The Monthly Religious Magazine (1865)
"idealizing OUR FRIENDS. I SEEM to have dodged all my days with one or two persons,
and lived upon expectation, — as if the bud would surely blossom ; and so ..."
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