sublimation
Noun
Meaning
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.
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Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
In the ice sublimation hypothesis, the low-lying dark material is interpreted as a blanket of primarily non-ice debris, which originated from the degraded rims of craters and has covered a predominantly icy bedrock.