outsight
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of outsight
Example Sentences
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They are the "chosen people" because when the soul sees with its spiritual insight as well as with its sensuous outsight, it can, if it will, choose between the two as guides.
From The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Moses is represented as the external and superficial religionist; the man of outsight; Al-Khizr as the spiritual and illuminated man of insight.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Arbiter is sotadical as Abú Nowás and the Curé of Meudon is surpassing in what appears uncleanness to the eye of outsight not of insight.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
He had insight as well as outsight, and the two taught him that personal and external reformation were mean matters compared with elevating the inner man.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Insight, or intuition, has the same limitations as outsight.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
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