etherealization

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A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and

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  1. The act or the result of etherealizing, or making ethereal or spiritual. Also spelled etherealisation. He [Aristotle] conceives the moral element as … etherealization. spiritualization of the physical, rather than as something purely intellectual. J. H. Stirling.

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  • A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and —  Backlog Studies
  • She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul, the abolition of time, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanctification of all the dogmas. —  Man and Superman
  • A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and I was not sorry to get rid of such a dull, slow mass as I now perceived myself to be, lying there on the bed. —  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
  • We still have ethereal beings who, as the practical outcome of their etherealization, rave about music and poetry, and Hallé and Ruskin, and horribly neglect their babies and the weekly bills. —  Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
 

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