sublimated

IPA: sʌbɫˈaɪmeɪtɪd

adjective

  • (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.
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Examples of "sublimated" in Sentences

  • The leader sublimated the troupe.
  • 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.

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