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Definition of Idealizes
1. idealize [v] - See also: idealize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealizes
Literary usage of Idealizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"C. The reason imagines ideal creations, or idealizes. a. In ideal creations,
first, the reason imagines ideal reproductions of the real; second, ..."
2. Official Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the N.E. Association of (1898)
"A taste for poetry, fiction, essays, and history enriches and idealizes life.
A half hour with Shakespeare transports the reader into another world, ..."
3. The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth by Theodore Parker, Frances Power Cobbe (1879)
"In the vast majority of men it is religion that thus idealizes and adorns ...
The doctrine of Fate and Foreordination idealizes the life of the Mohammedan; ..."
4. The Life of Society: A General View by Edmund Woodward Brown (1885)
"Imagination idealizes periods. In after life it often puts a glamour on the ...
Imagination idealizes places. To the boy or girl gone from home to school or ..."
5. For the Right: Essays and Addreses by Members of the "Fight for Right Movement." by Fight for Right Movement, Francis Edward Younghusband, James Bryce Bryce, Henry John Newbolt, Maurice Henry Hewlett, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Gilbert Murray, Ramsay Muir, Frederick Pollock, Philip Henry Kerr Lothian, Frederick Whyte, Henry Wickham Stee (1918)
"The Christian warrior fights, not because he idealizes war, but because he
idealizes the reign of righteousness and true peace, which can only be won in an ..."
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