spiritualized

Engels's German Ideology made it clear that historicist literary studies departed markedly from the kind of spiritualized humanism associated with critics like Abrams.

Introduction 2008

And certainly not abstracted and lofted onto some kind of spiritualized “to do” list.

25th Sunday OT 2005: Redux 2009

That most wicked of Byronisms, which consists in depreciating the duties of common life in order to exalt the claims of a kind of spiritualized sensuality and poetic self-importance, he instinctively avoids.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

The idea of the Church itself was weak in most Protestant mind; they "spiritualized" it, as they said; but when Jesus spoke of confessing him _before men_, he evidently laid the foundations of a visible Church.

The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 Various 1888

Save for some such old associations as these, why should it be supposed that matter becomes "spiritualized" as it diminishes in apparent substantiality?

The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

AFAIC, anyone who can't see bible prophecy being fulfilled almost daily are either disinterested, don't want to believe it, or their spiritual eyes have been closed by "spiritualized" interpretations of prophecy that were postulated in past centuries by bible scholars with a denominational axe to grind.

Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

14 There are linguists that speak of alternations like drink and drank as though they represented the high-water mark of inflection, a kind of spiritualized essence of pure inflective form.

Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure 1921

I'm committed to engaging the health and wealth gospel because Osteen and Jakes are partly right: the church has too often spiritualized the gospel to the point that it offers nothing in the here and now.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: America's Next Revival Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 2011

I'm committed to engaging the health and wealth gospel because Osteen and Jakes are partly right: the church has too often spiritualized the gospel to the point that it offers nothing in the here and now.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: America's Next Revival Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 2011

His lover's imagination had made her holy, too holy, too spiritualized, to have any kinship with him in the flesh.

Chapter 11 2010