spiritualize
/'spiritjuəlaiz/ Cách viết khác : (spiritualise) /'spiritjuəlaiz/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To purify from worldly or corrupting influences: To make something or someone more spiritual or less focused on material concerns.
- To elevate or idealize; to give a spiritual character or meaning to something: To interpret or transform something in a way that emphasizes its spiritual aspect.
- To read or interpret in a spiritual sense: To understand a text, event, or object beyond its literal meaning, attributing a deeper, religious, or metaphysical significance to it.
Usage and Examples
- Verb:
- The retreat aimed to spiritualize the participants, helping them detach from material desires.
- Some poets spiritualize nature, seeing mountains and rivers as manifestations of the divine.
- Theologians often spiritualize ancient texts, seeking allegorical meanings beneath the literal stories.
Advanced Usage
- "To spiritualize an experience": to reflect on or interpret a mundane experience in a way that reveals a spiritual lesson or connection.
- She learned to spiritualize her daily routine, turning simple chores into acts of mindfulness.
- "To spiritualize a concept": to infuse an abstract idea (like love, justice, or freedom) with religious or transcendent significance.
- The philosopher sought to spiritualize the concept of community, framing it as a sacred bond.
Variants and Related Words
- Spiritualization (noun): The act or process of spiritualizing.
- The spiritualization of the ritual changed its focus from external form to inner meaning.
- Spiritual (adjective): Relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.
- She was on a spiritual journey.
- Spirituality (noun): The quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul.
- His spirituality was deeply personal.
Synonyms
- Elevate: To raise to a higher level, especially in terms of spiritual or moral quality.
- Idealize: To regard or represent as perfect or better than in reality.
- Transfigure: To transform into something more beautiful or elevated, often with a spiritual connotation.
- Consecrate: To make or declare something sacred.
Antonyms
- Materialize: To represent in or assume a material form; to make physically tangible.
- Secularize: To remove religious or spiritual influence from something.
- Desecrate: To treat a sacred place or thing with violent disrespect.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- "To spiritualize away": (Sometimes used critically) To explain away practical, historical, or material realities by giving them an exclusively spiritual interpretation.
- One must be careful not to spiritualize away the very real suffering described in the text.
Verb
- purify from the corrupting influences of the world
- During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized
- elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
- give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense