ab extra
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"It seems to me," he said, "that there is a guiding and directing principle ab extra which interacts with the material of the physical universe but is not of it."
From Time Magazine Archive
A people will no more quit their alphabet than they will quit their language; they will no more consent to modify the one ab extra than the other.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
The first question, then, for the historian should be, What accounts does this nation give of its early history? the second, What account of this nation's early history can be obtained ab extra?
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
This Life is not something added ab extra to the natural man; it is the normal and appropriate development of the natural man.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
For he could see himself, and laugh at himself, ab extra, better than most men.
From Delia Blanchflower by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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