unspiritualize
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + spiritualize
Verb[edit]
unspiritualize (third-person singular simple present unspiritualizes, present participle unspiritualizing, simple past and past participle unspiritualized)
- (transitive) To deprive of spirituality.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
- Now there are several enjoyments in themselves very lawful, and yet such as, upon a free unwary use of them, will by degrees certainly indispose and unspiritualize the mind, dulling its appetite […]