Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.
- n. In old chemistry, the operation of extracting spirit from natural bodies. Also spelled spiritualisation.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of spiritualizing.
- n. The state of being spiritualized.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content
Examples
“On the other hand, romanticism's restless critical and institutional energies find ways to disrupt its own susceptibility to spiritualization — and in those disruptions one may read a critique of the secularism for which spiritualization is a primary way of containing the religious.”
“Always on the verge of taking a familiar path (nationalism, spiritualization), romanticism's restless critical and institutional energies also find ways to disrupt those susceptibilities.”
“As the spiritualization of matter, this dogma, long affirmed in alchemy, counteracted for Jung the demonization of matter, which Jung identified with”
“It is neither the cosmos which merits spiritualization, nor the self considered alone, but the depth of the relationship between the two.”
“And so, in conclusion, I would sum up by saying that thinking about Mary in relation to the unity of the Church is one essential way of breaking down false spiritualization and pseudo-spirituality – a reminder that the Holy Spirit is mysteriously much more interested than we often are in bodies and history, in Mary and the disciples, in the suffering and risen flesh of Christ, in the sacraments.”
“Breaking down that false spiritualization takes us back to seeing how the unity of Christ's people springs to life in the human actuality of the Visitation (the gospel at the Eucharist earlier today) and Pentecost, Luke's two great images.”
“Like me, he could see the necessity for a change in thought-patterns whereby all humans believed in the spiritualization of the natural world including their own existence.”
Sri Aurobindo expressed his discontent with the Eastern concept of nirvana
“Rorty lauds the German Idealists and the Romantic poets for their rejection of external reality, but, in their fetishization and spiritualization of the Self, he sees mere Platonic claptrap.”
“Toynbee emphasized the difference between technological-material progress and true progress, which he defined as spiritualization.”
“The process of the evolution is to unfold in the universe the involved planes, and do so at levels of perfection and ultimate possibility, culminating in the supramentalization, spiritualization of everything in creation.”
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