Definition of "spiritualizing" []

• Present participle of spiritualize. (verb)

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• "Indeed there is no doubt that to this process-which one may describe as a spiritualizing of the emotions and of thought'that to it man owes the most subtle and refined pleasures of which he is capable: the pleasure in the beauty of artistic creation and of logical trains of thought."
• "Paul certainly wasn't spiritualizing when he said that in Christ there "is neither Jew nor Greek;" he probably meant it when he ruled out the distinctions between slave or free and male and female as well Galatians 3:27-29."
• "Similarly, I believe women activists, like Fatima, can gain more supporters to her progressive movement by further spiritualizing their message: Not necessarily by demanding mosques change their policies to have men and women pray side-by-side, but rather demanding mosques to give women their right to choose where to pray."