unsensualizev.
(un- prefix2 1d(a).)
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > free from sensuality [verb (transitive)]
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1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 29. 226 Love is so unsensualised, and sublimed above passion, that it has forgotten its old retreats.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 80 For Fancy is the power That first unsensualises the dark mind, Giving it new delights.
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 147 Certain divines who thought to unsensualize mankind by making the body as disgusting as possible.
1889 Spectator 7 Sept. An almost Pharisaic observance of the rites and ceremonies which unsensualised them.
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