oversoul

Example Sentences

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It is the land not only of the habitant, but of his oversoul, the good cure, and his overlord the seigneur, now faded economically, but still lingering socially in the scene of his large possessions.

From A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction by Howells, William Dean

The Crowd, by a kind of instinct—an oversoul or undersoul of which it knows not until afterward, takes up each tool gropingly—sometimes even against its will and against its conscience, uses it and drops it.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley

The club was a funny mixture of rabbis and weedy old ladies, the "oversoul" and oysters.

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

Crosslegged under an umbrel umbershoot he thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their oversoul, mahamahatma.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

There is no social "oversoul" which transcends individual minds, and there is no social "consciousness" which stands outside of and above the consciousnesses of individuals.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.