oversoul
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oversoul
Example Sentences
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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
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)
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 Willson, Thomas E.
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 Alcott, Louisa May
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 Anderson, Benjamin M.
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