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oversoul

[ oh-ver-sohl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Philosophy.

(especially in transcendentalism) a supreme reality or mind; the spiritual unity of all being.

An Americanism dating back to 1841–44; over- + soul

I believe in the unseen world and believe the cosmos is probably something like the Oversoul that Emerson wrote of.

The club was a funny mixture of rabbis and weedy old ladies, the "oversoul" and oysters.

Crosslegged under an umbrel umbershoot he thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their oversoul, mahamahatma.

About the time the grain was ready to house, some call of the Oversoul wafted all the men away.

It springs, in fact, from a related portion of the race-oversoul.

Thus pleads Emerson in the name of the child's potential oversoul.

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