vbl. sb. [f. as prec.] The action of the verb SPIRITUALIZE; a spiritual interpretation.

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1649.  F. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., Introd. ii. 16. Man ascending unto God, by the Spiritualizing of his Nature.

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1696.  C. Leslie, Snake in Grass, 166. Their [sc. Quakers’] Principle is Spiritualizing.

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1842.  Penny Cycl., XXIV. 247/2. His kingdom was not so much a new one, as a fulfilling and spiritualizing of the former dispensation.

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1864.  D. Masson, in Macm. Mag., Oct., 469/1. The mystic spiritualizings of an Irving.

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  b.  In attributive use.

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1842.  A. R. C. Dallas, Look to Jerus. (ed. 2), 49. The spiritualizing system of interpretation.

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1856.  R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 52. If this spiritualizing mania be Philo’s great claim to distinction.

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1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, x. 339. The spiritualizing tendency of modern genius, symbolical in Shelley’s ‘Adonais.’

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