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unsensualize

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

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

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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