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noun

Sublimation n.

(Chem.) The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.

The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.

That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process. "Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality."

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Etymology of 'Sublimation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Compound of Alchymy; or, the Twelve Gates leading to the Discovery of the Philosopher's Stone. These gates he described to be calcination, solution, separation, conjunction, putrefaction, congelation, cibation, sublimation, fermentation, exaltation, multiplication, and projection; to which he might have added botheration, the most important process of all. He was very rich, and allowed it to be believed that he could make gold out of iron. Fuller, in his Worthies of England, ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... matter of heat being again set at liberty, which was combined with other matters by the powers of life; and thus by its diffusion the solid bodies return into liquid ones or into gasses, as occurs in the processes of fermentation, putrefaction, sublimation, and calcination. Whence solidity appears to be produced in consequence of the diminution of heat, as the condensation of steam into water, and the consolidation of water into ice, or by the combination of heat with ...

— The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society - A Poem, with Philosophical Notes • Erasmus Darwin

... render the religious rites as little pleasing to the senses as possible, by aiming at a sublimation that peculiarly favours spiritual pride and a pious conceit. I do not know whether travelling has had the same effect on you, as it has produced on me; but I find all my inherited antipathies to the ...

— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper

Words linked to "Sublimation" : transformation, sublimate, psychological science, modification, alteration, shift