supersensual

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

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

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

Since perfect proof of the supersensual is beyond the span of human consciousness, the element of risk can never be eliminated: we are obliged in the end to trust the universe and live by faith.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day 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

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