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  • verb Present participle of etherealize.

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Examples

  • All things were harmonious, the glorious cocoa-palms, the bright green slopes, the sunset gold on the lake-like river, the ranges of forest-covered mountains etherealizing in the purple light, the swarthy faces and scarlet uniforms of the Sikh guard, and rich and luscious odors, floated in on balmy airs, glories of the burning tropics, untellable and incommunicable!

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Now, the material mystery of actual landscape arises from the presence of an appreciable atmosphere, softening forms, etherealizing distances, modifying color, and lending the glow of variously refracted light to every object falling under its influence.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Thus, it seemed to Janet, invaded by a pearly mist was her own soul, in which she walked in wonder, -- a mist shot through and through with soft, exhilarating lights half disclosing yet transforming and etherealizing certain landmark's there on which, formerly, she had not cared to gaze.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909

  • Thus, it seemed to Janet, invaded by a pearly mist was her own soul, in which she walked in wonder, -- a mist shot through and through with soft, exhilarating lights half disclosing yet transforming and etherealizing certain landmark's there on which, formerly, she had not cared to gaze.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Thus, it seemed to Janet, invaded by a pearly mist was her own soul, in which she walked in wonder, -- a mist shot through and through with soft, exhilarating lights half disclosing yet transforming and etherealizing certain landmark's there on which, formerly, she had not cared to gaze.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • A soft mist was etherealizing the bald realities of the native city.

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • Her soul seemed to be flashing through the rare loveliness of her face and etherealizing its beauty.

    Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted. 1892

  • The elevating and etherealizing ideas of the unknown and of unreality must be brought forward with authority, as they are the legitimate heirs of the known, and of reality, and at least as great as their parents.

    Democratic Vistas: Paras. 90–119. Collect 1892

  • And he was the son of a poet with an admirable gift of individualising, of etherealizing the common-place; of making touching, delicate, fascinating the most hopeless conventions of the, so-called, refined existence.

    Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

  • All things were harmonious, the glorious cocoa-palms, the bright green slopes, the sunset gold on the lake-like river, the ranges of forest-covered mountains etherealizing in the purple light, the swarthy faces and scarlet uniforms of the Sikh guard, and rich and luscious odors, floated in on balmy airs, glories of the burning tropics, untellable and incommunicable!

    The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

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