oversoul

Example Sentences

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The club was a funny mixture of rabbis and weedy old ladies, the "oversoul" and oysters.

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

It is the land not only of the habitant, but of his oversoul, the good cure, and his overlord the seigneur, now faded economically, but still lingering socially in the scene of his large possessions.

From A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction by Howells, William Dean

The Crowd, by a kind of instinct—an oversoul or undersoul of which it knows not until afterward, takes up each tool gropingly—sometimes even against its will and against its conscience, uses it and drops it.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley

An artificial oversoul she is, that may presently break down and reveal a human being beneath it.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The true self is a principle in you superior to both these natural characters, a kind of oversoul, as Emerson puts it.

From The Essentials of Spirituality by Adler, Felix