to supernaturalize

Examples

• All

• Similarly, our natural desire (which I will shortly identify with the dynamism of consciousness) becomes supernaturalized through its new finality in the Body of Christ, for "the more ultimate cause enters more intimately into the nature of the thing than the more proximate."

  Academic text (2008)

• For de Lubac, in the present order of the world, the activity of the mind becomes supernaturalized once it passes from potency to act.

  Academic text (2008)

• His obscurely present references to the natural order are eclipsed by his emphasis on the concrete desire as supernaturalized in being and in destiny in the present world order.

  Academic text (2008)

• In the novel, the protagonist is supernaturalized, gaining extraordinary abilities during the climax of the story.

• The artist supernaturalized the everyday scenes by adding ethereal light and mystical creatures in her paintings.

Synonyms

D

to divinize

vsto supernaturalize

• Formal

1 9.9

To make someone or something into a god

focuses on making things supernatural more generally, not only divine elevation

A

to alchemize

vsto supernaturalize

• Literature

1 9.9

To change ordinary things into something special as if by magic

means turning something supernatural or presenting it that way rather than vague change

S

to sorcerize

vsto supernaturalize

• Literature

9.9

To change something by magic so it acts differently

is broader, makes things seem or become supernatural not only via magic

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology