oversoul
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oversoul
Example Sentences
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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 Adler, Felix
Janet, who in far-away France had not been touched by the financial anxieties, felt a genuine grief that gave her an admirable stimulus to her efflorescent oversoul.
From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham
The second or subliminal personality is the superior spiritual self, the man's own oversoul, which automatically superintends all physical functions and procedures, and influences mental and moral attitudes.
From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian
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 Lee, Gerald Stanley
Crosslegged under an umbrel umbershoot he thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their oversoul, mahamahatma.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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