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Sublimation

noun

(chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid.

(psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable.

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... not be, but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange, As fire converts to fire the things it burns, As we our ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... whose mournfulness made my skin creep. And then his hand shot out and gripped my shoulder, and I stiffened like stone in my chair—for from behind us, like an echo, and then taking up the cry, swelled a wail that seemed to hold within it a sublimation of the sorrows of centuries! It gathered itself into one heartbroken, sobbing note and died away! O'Keefe's grip loosened, and he rose ...

— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

... could not be, but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange, As fire converts to fire the things it burns— As we our food into our ...

— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge

... of minute quantities, the microscope must be used, and Guy's and Helwig's method of sublimation will be found advantageous. Crystalline poisons may be recognized by their ...

— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

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