transfigure
The theme of enlightenment or transfiguration is what motivated me.
He did not conceive of the end of the world as a transfiguration, but rather as a liberation of the spirit.
Temptation and transfiguration are two sides of the same coin.

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Examples of transfiguration

transfiguration
Genres, like records, do not rest in one site, but refract into multiple and successive transfigurations of musical meaning.
This abasement is but the prelude to a further, more glorious transfiguration.
This secular transfiguration of the myth partially explains the desired ' conquest ' of the working class.
The individual experiences return to and transfiguration of childhood.
Nor is the postulate of the empirical possibility of the cultivation of the joyous transfiguration of the moral in conflict with strong physicalism.
Crucially, though, they have undergone a striking transfiguration in compositional function.
For example, meditations aimed at release from ego-identification facilitate exercises aimed at cultivating the joyous transfiguration of the moral, and vice versa.
Such transfigurations, employing allegory and exotic imagery, epitomize the carefully choreographed spectacle of femininity produced for the male gaze in the aristocratic marriage market.
With their gentle irony, these brief allusions serve primarily to reinforce or remind us of the transfigurations that have preceded them.
There was no transfiguration of elite identity nor epiphany of brotherhood.
In addition, her gown is not embroidered with shamrocks but with stars, a change that facilitates the transfiguration of the subject.
As a linguistic process, transfiguration can be generative of new meanings, but the figures that are its products can be canonized as inherited truths.
This social transfiguration, accompanied by an industrial decline, is believed to have caused an acute sense of deprivation amongst the city's subordinate social groups.
Moreover, by insisting on tragedy over transfiguration, the final chord paints as tragic not so much anything particular that animates the story, but the story's movement as a whole.
The second point states that there is an empirical connection - a causal relationship - between liberation from conventional ego-identification, joyous transfiguration of the moral, and psychophysical transformation.
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