| 释义 |
spiritualizing, vbl. n.|ˈspɪrɪtjuːəlaɪzɪŋ|
[f. as prec.]
The action of the verb spiritualize; a spiritual interpretation.
1649F. Roberts Clavis Bibl. Introd. ii. 16 Man ascending unto God, by the Spiritualizing of his Nature. 1696C. Leslie Snake in Grass 166 Their [sc. Quakers'] Principle is Spiritualizing. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIV. 247/2 His kingdom was not so much a new one, as a fulfilling and spiritualizing of the former dispensation. 1864Macm. Mag. Oct. 469 The mystic spiritualizings of an Irving.
b. In attributive use.
1842A. R. C. Dallas Look to Jerus. (ed. 2) 49 The spiritualizing system of interpretation. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 52 If this spiritualizing mania be Philo's great claim to distinction. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 339 The spiritualizing tendency of modern genius, symbolical in Shelley's ‘Adonais’. |