supersensual

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Even the power which lurks in every coal-scuttle, shines in the electric lamp, pants in the motor-omnibus, declares itself in the ineffable wonders of reproduction and growth, is supersensual.

From Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People by Underhill, Evelyn

The faith of Page 239 science is amazing; its assertions of the supersensual are astounding.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White

Thou supersensual, sensual wooer, A girl by the nose is leading thee.

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy

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

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