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spiritualizing

spiritualizing is the present participle and gerund 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.

Questions about spiritualizing

What is spiritualizing the present participle and gerund of?
Spiritualizing is the present participle and gerund of spiritualize.

Words near spiritualizing in the dictionary

  1. spiritualized
  2. spiritualizer
  3. spiritualizers
  4. spiritualizes
  5. spiritualizeth
  6. spiritualizing
  7. spirituall
  8. spiritually
  9. spiritually Israeli
  10. spiritualness
  11. spirituals

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