supernaturalizationn.
/ˌsuːpəˌnatʃ(ə)rəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌsuːpəˌnatʃ(ə)rl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌsjuːpəˌnatʃ(ə)rəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌsjuːpəˌnatʃ(ə)rl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsupərˌnætʃ(ə)rəlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action of making or becoming supernatural.
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the world > the supernatural > [noun] > making supernatural
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1870 Catholic World Dec. 303/2 This supernaturalization, through the Incarnation, of all who are born anew, by the election of grace, of Jesus Christ our Lord.
1933 Downside Rev. 51 729 St Thomas gives no support..to the original views of Rousselot..as to the need of a kind of supernaturalization of the (natural) intellectual powers in order to accept and assent to revelation.
1961 E. L. Mascall Grace & Glory i. 15 The sanctification and the supernaturalization of our whole being, body and soul alike—this is the purpose for which the Catholic Church and its whole sacramental equipment exist.
2003 E. Sosa in K. Ludwig D. Davidson iv. 179 This is also reminiscent of the long-standing controversy over whether Descartes' supernaturalization is similarly vicious in its circularity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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