supersensual

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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

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

Modern love does not express itself in such terms; it is more mental and sentimental, more esthetic and sympathetic, more decorous and delicate, more refined and supersensual.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

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

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

If the religious contents of the Bible find their justification in the interior consciousness of man, then the question arises, "Can human reason attain to the supersensual, or is it limited to the sensuous experience?"

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)