v. [UN-2 6 c.] trans. To divest of spiritual qualities.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1727), VI. 243. Enjoyments … such as … will by Degrees certainly indispose, and unspiritualize the Mind.
1846. Hawthorne, Old Manse, II. 115. Those evil habits … which unspiritualize man’s nature.
1851. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., II. III. II. v. § 17. 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.
