unspiritualizev.
transitive. To divest of spiritual qualities.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > secularization > make secular [verb (transitive)]
worldlify1612
secularize1707
unspiritualizea1716
temporalize1828
disconsecrate1838
despiritualize1868
laicize1870
deconsecrate1876
desacralize1911
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 243 Enjoyments..such, as..will by Degrees certainly indispose, and unspiritualize the Mind.
1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses ii. 115 Those evil habits..which unspiritualize man's nature.
1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 212 I recollect no single instance of a naked angel that does not look..unspiritualized.
1881 H. Drummond Ideal Life (1897) 133 God would never unspiritualise three-fourths of man's active life by work, if work were work, and nothing more.
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