unspiritualize

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ spiritualize.

Verb

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unspiritualize (third-person singular simple present unspiritualizes, present participle unspiritualizing, simple past and past participle unspiritualized)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of spirituality.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      Now there are several enjoyments in themselves very lawful, and yet such as, upon a free unwary use of them, will by degrees certainly indispose and unspiritualize the mind, dulling its appetite […]
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