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oversoul

American  
[oh-ver-sohl] / ˈoʊ vərˌsoʊl /

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of oversoul

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

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The true self is a principle in you superior to both these natural characters, a kind of oversoul, as Emerson puts it.

From The Essentials of Spirituality by Felix Adler

The Crowd, by a kind of instinct—an oversoul or undersoul of which it knows not until afterward, takes up each tool gropingly—sometimes even against its will and against its conscience, uses it and drops it.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee

Every combination of these atoms, whether a knife, a leaf, an animal, an earth, a sun, or a star, has this soul and oversoul.

From Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson

There is no social "oversoul" which transcends individual minds, and there is no social "consciousness" which stands outside of and above the consciousnesses of individuals.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson

It is the land not only of the habitant, but of his oversoul, the good cure, and his overlord the seigneur, now faded economically, but still lingering socially in the scene of his large possessions.

From A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction by William Dean Howells

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