oversoul
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oversoul
Example Sentences
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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
He had started upon this elopement in a vein of fine romance, immensely proud of his wickedness, and really as much in love as an artificial oversoul can be, with Jessie.
From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Howells, William Dean
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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
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