spiritualize
spiritualize verb: to make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
Verb
spiritualize (third-person singular simple present spiritualizes, present participle spiritualizing, simple past and past participle spiritualized)
- To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
- 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
- To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
- To extract spirit.
- To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.
spiritualize meaning in Tamil
spiritualize in Tamil
- தெய்வீகமாக்கு
Forms of spiritualize
| third-person singular present | spiritualizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | spiritualizing |
| past participle | spiritualized |
| past | spiritualized |
| alternative form | spiritualise |
Origin of spiritualize
From spiritual + -ize.
Words formed from spiritualize
Questions about spiritualize
- What does spiritualize mean?
- Spiritualize means to make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
- What is spiritualize in Tamil?
- Spiritualize in Tamil is தெய்வீகமாக்கு. See Spiritualize meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is spiritualize?
- Spiritualize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of spiritualize?
- The past tense of spiritualize is spiritualized.
Words near spiritualize in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spiritualize (page history and authors); spiritualize (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “spiritualize.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spiritualize. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.