Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBeing an actress is the sublimation of feminity. Monica Bellucci
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. Novalis
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? Jack Vance
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. Roy Blount
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. Robert Hughes
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. Source: Internet