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spiritualise

spiritualise is the alternative form of spiritualize.

Meaning of spiritualize

Verb

spiritualize (third-person singular simple present spiritualizes, present participle spiritualizing, simple past and past participle spiritualized)

  1. To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
  2. To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.
    • This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say.1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC
  3. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
  4. (obsolete) To extract spirit.
  5. (obsolete) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Forms of spiritualise

third-person singular presentspiritualises
present participlespiritualising
past participlespiritualised
pastspiritualised

Origin of spiritualise

From spiritual + -ise.

Words formed from spiritualise

Questions about spiritualise

What is spiritualise the alternative form of?
Spiritualise is the alternative form of spiritualize.

Words near spiritualise in the dictionary

  1. spiritual wifery
  2. spiritual world
  3. spiritual worlds
  4. spiritualisation
  5. spiritualisations
  6. spiritualise
  7. spiritualised
  8. spiritualiser
  9. spiritualisers
  10. spiritualises
  11. spiritualising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spiritualise (page history and authors); spiritualize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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