supramundane

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Several of his supramundane gambits made copy for newsmen of the 1860s.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is as supramundane in his way as Shelley in his.

From Milton by Bailey, John Cann

It was much as if our hypothetical supramundane observer looked upon the clothes of his newly discovered human being as forming the essential part of his nature.

From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)

Nor was this state of affairs improved by the growing discontent and immoderate ambition of the clergy, who unremittingly urged their pretensions to immunity from State control, affirming the supramundane condition of their office.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

Still a writer inside Mr. Gladstone's church and in full and active sympathy with him on this side of mundane and supramundane things, would undoubtedly have treated the subject differently from any writer outside.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John