supersensual

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This, then, was the type of Madonna, of the supersensual and sublimated Virgins of Cologne!

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

Mr. Murry confesses that at times, as he reads him, he is "seized by a supersensual terror."

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

The Scholar said to his Master: How may I come to the supersensual life, that I may see God and hear Him speak?

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

His pattern, which is to please the supersensual ear, is yet addressed, throughout and first of all, to the demands of logic.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

It alone extends the narrow horizon of their thoughts, supplies the images of their dreams, allures them to the supersensual and the ideal.

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