Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of lessening the force, or impeding and removing the influences, of the nobler or spiritual nature and relations of men; the state of being so affected.
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Examples
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In terms of the despiritualization of the universe, the mental process works so that it becomes virtuous to destroy the planet.
Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010
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‘In terms of the despiritualization of the universe, the mental process works so that it becomes virtuous to destroy the planet.’
Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010
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As such it completes the dehumanization and despiritualization of labour begun by the subdivision of labour.
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Chesterton favorably contrasts the pagan cult of household gods with the bourgeois fiction of domestic bliss and equates the rise of industrial capitalism with “the end of the household gods”—the despiritualization and narrowing of the home.
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He argues that this produces a spiritual vacuum that has been exploited by the Religious Right, "many very decent Americans ... get attracted to the Religious Right because it is the only voice that they encounter that is willing to challenge the despiritualization of daily life."
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He argues that this produces a spiritual vacuum that has been exploited by the Religious Right, many very decent Americans get attracted to the Religious Right because it is the only voice that they encounter that is willing to challenge the despiritualization of daily life.
Printing: Searching for the Democrats - Show Me the Values 2006
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He calls it "a sun disc with protruding rays", and says: "To this symbol the warrior with the bow and arrow was added -- a despiritualization that reflects the martial spirit of the Assyrian empire". [
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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