Definition of "spiritualization" [spir•it•u•al•i•za•tion]

• The act of spiritualizing. (noun)
• The state of being spiritualized. (noun)

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• "On the other hand, romanticism's restless critical and institutional energies find ways to disrupt its own susceptibility to spiritualization — and in those disruptions one may read a critique of the secularism for which spiritualization is a primary way of containing the religious."
• "Always on the verge of taking a familiar path (nationalism, spiritualization), romanticism's restless critical and institutional energies also find ways to disrupt those susceptibilities."
• "As the spiritualization of matter, this dogma, long affirmed in alchemy, counteracted for Jung the demonization of matter, which Jung identified with"