idéaliser

Jadis les gens idéalisaient la figure féminine dans sa forme naturelle.
Back then people idealised the female figure in its natural form.
A mesure que les idées humaines se développaient davantage, les dieux, qui, comme je l’ai déjà observé, n’en ont jamais été que la réverbération fantastique, idéale, poétique, où l’image renversée, s’idéalisaient aussi.
As fast as human ideas develop, the gods, who, as I have already stated, were never anything more than a fantastic, ideal, poetical reverberation of an inverted image, become idealised also.
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