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Definition of Spiritualise

1. Verb. Give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense.

2. Verb. Purify from the corrupting influences of the world. "During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiritualise

spiritual awakening spiritual being spiritual bouquet spiritual desertion spiritual healing spiritual leader spiritual naturalism spiritual naturalist spiritual rebirth spiritual sequel

spiritual sequels spiritual violence spiritual world spiritual worlds spiritualisation spiritualise (current term) spiritualisms spiritualistic spiritualists spiritualities

spirituality spiritualization spiritualizations spiritualize spiritualized spiritualizer spiritualizers spiritualizes

Literary usage of Spiritualise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1882)
"It cannot spiritualise life by providing services or sermons. It must act with, not for, the people. This involves a change not only in the actions of ..."

2. Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J. S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T. H. Green by John MacCunn (1907)
"It is never the end of a nation to diminish its riches; its problem is to spiritualise increase of riches. But the movement has its dangers. ..."

3. Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History by Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1898)
"The three Estates of Parliament—spiritualise, ... and Merchand —make their entrance on the stage walking backwards, 'led by the Vices': spiritualise by ..."

4. Realities and Ideals: Social, Political, Literary and Artistic by Frederic Harrison (1908)
"... entire series of Essays is based seeks to moralise and to spiritualise the great institutions of society — not to revolutionise or to materialise them. ..."

5. Realities and Ideals: Social, Political, Literary and Artistic by Frederic Harrison (1908)
"... entire series of Essays is based seeks to moralise and to spiritualise the great institutions of society — not to revolutionise or to materialise them. ..."

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