0 past simple and past participle of sublimate
1 to express strong emotions or use energy by doing an activity, especially an activity that is considered socially acceptable:
All desires and energies should be sublimated into pursuit of these goals-national goals of economic, political, and cultural advancement.
The appalling realities of child labour were sublimated into an ideal that would appease the audience.
In short, faithful reporting of observed events often became sublimated to larger moral issues.
He does not, of course, address the question that absorbed some of the scholars - whether the carnal aspect of male love must necessarily be sublimated.
A poetics is attached to invention, formed as always of transposed and sublimated human attributions of value.
This is a love duet, yes, but the love is chaste and sublimated.
Madison sublimated his own disgust for the peculiar institution to the accommodative determinations of the polity, which continued to recognize its existence.
The viewer's yearning for intimacy with the past and his acquisitive desire are both sublimated in an aesthetic contemplation devoid of either physical contact or possessiveness.
