sublimated

IPA: sʌbɫˈaɪmeɪtɪd

(chemistry) Of a substance, changed from a solid into a gas without passing through the liquid state, with or without being heated.
(psychoanalysis) Modified from the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct into a socially acceptable manner.

Examples of "sublimated" in Sentences

A kind of sublimated egotism, he said to himself, after all!
We know that the sex energy can be sublimated, that is, raised to a higher power.
London would seem to have "sublimated" his love for poetry as opposed to abandoning it.
Beatrice symbolized both earthly love and Christian truth -- the poet's lust became "sublimated," as we would say, into spiritual longing.
A great deal of sexual energy can, of course, be canalized or "sublimated" into other things: art, music, intense religious faith, and so on.
Though Hutton inclined to an extremely "high" section of the Church, to what, indeed, might be described as a kind of sublimated sacerdotalism, and Townsend to a Broad Church
Information may be inaccessible for a variety of reasons such as simple failure to retrieve, active censorship or "sublimated" into a form which can't be recognised to borrow Freud's terminology
American, sitting there, realizing that it was all in the name of art, and for the heralding of genius -- a kind of sublimated recruiting meeting for the enlistment in the army of expression of personality, or for the saving of the soul of poetry.