unsensualize

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verb

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

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Meanings

verbunsensualize (third-person singular simple present unsensualizes, present participle unsensualizing, simple past and past participle unsensualized)

present singular third person unsensualizes · participle present unsensualizing · participle past unsensualized · past unsensualized

  1. transitiveTo elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
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    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.

Origin

From un- + sensualize.

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APA

unsensualize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsensualize

MLA

“unsensualize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsensualize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsensualize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsensualize.

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