supersensual

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The avenues of supersensual impressions would be open.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)

Such Sentimentalität existed, I am convinced, in Alexandrian life as well as in Alexandrian literature; but of the existence of true supersensual altruistic sentiment I can find no evidence.

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

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

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.

Their literature attests that they considered love a degrading, sensual passion, not an ennobling, supersensual sentiment, as we do.

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