supersensual

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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

Even in this case we speak figuratively, for how could we speak otherwise of what is supersensual?

From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

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

Yet even the least spiritual forms of the cult of the Child are seldom without some hint of the supersensual, the Infinite, and even in Eckhart there is a love of concrete symbolism.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

In no merely figurative sense did she regard herself as the spouse of Christ, but dwelt upon the bliss, beyond all mortal happiness, which she enjoyed in supersensual communion with her Lord.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington