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unsensualize

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • 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.

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History

Etymology

From un- + sensualize.