0 to express strong emotions or use energy by doing an activity, especially an activity that is considered socially acceptable: --
To augment the power of the image, the maker sublimates or eliminates extraneous detail that might detract from the power of the deity to perform its intended devotional duty.
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.
Madison sublimated his own disgust for the peculiar institution to the accommodative determinations of the polity, which continued to recognize its existence.
This is a love duet, yes, but the love is chaste and sublimated.
The localized pressure of sublimating material can be an important parameter in the formation of this material.
The city stands, democratized and mobile, as the source of the "desire" that this poem both articulates and sublimates.
All specimens coated with ammonium chloride sublimate prior to photography, specimens are internal surfaces of composite moulds unless otherwise stated.
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.
