supersensual

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A theory of life is the fit answer to the supersensual riddle of living.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis

Though joy and inward peace even in desolation are dominant marks of those who have grown up into it, still it offers to none a succession of supersensual delights.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn

Modern love does not express itself in such terms; it is more mental and sentimental, more esthetic and sympathetic, more decorous and delicate, more refined and supersensual.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

The thrill it gave her was unlike the shock that she remembered receiving from the poem of his youth, the shiver they had all felt, as at the passing by of the supersensual.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

It coloured the whole moral teaching of the time, and led the chief moralists to regard virtue simply as the highest kind of supersensual beauty.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole