supersensual

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In his supersensual way he had cared for her; and her nature, with all its murkiness, had responded to the supersensual appeal.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

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

I for my part cannot find in them even a hint at supersensual altruistic sentiment.

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

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

It coloured the whole moral teaching of the time, and led the chief moralists to regard virtue simply as the highest kind of supersensual beauty.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole