Unsensualize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unsensualize is a verb meaning (transitive) To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
Meaning
(transitive) To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
Example Sentences
March 25, 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe, The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast, With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul To forms of beauty; and by sensual wants Unsensualize the mind, which in the Means Learns to forget the grossness of the End, Best pleasur'd with its own activity.
Word Forms
- unsensualizes
- unsensualizing
- unsensualized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unsensualise, unsexualize, purify, sublime, unsully, unsanctify.
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