oversoul
Americannoun
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Origin of oversoul
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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
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
The club was a funny mixture of rabbis and weedy old ladies, the "oversoul" and oysters.
From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Louisa May Alcott
An artificial oversoul she is, that may presently break down and reveal a human being beneath it.
From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
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