supersensual

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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

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

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

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

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

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