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

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

It is no easy appropriation of supersensual graces, but a deeper entering into the mystery of life, a richer, more profound, participation in pain, effort, as well as joy.

From Ruysbroeck by Underhill, Evelyn

Of the symptoms of true love—mental or sentimental, esthetic and sympathetic, altruistic and supersensual, he knows no more than Sappho did a thousand years before him.

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

Everybody's nerves were tense, troubled by the vibrating passage of the supersensual.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May