suprarational

[soo-pruh-rash-uh-nl]

adjective

1. not understandable by reason alone; beyond rational comprehension.

Word History and Origins

Origin of suprarational¹

First recorded in 1815–25; supra- + rational

Example Sentences

Conversely, wherever redemption forms the central thought, need is felt of a suprarational truth, which no longer views morality as the only aim, and which, again, requires particular media, a sacred history and sacred symbols.

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As, however, in consequence of philosophical tradition, neither Philo, nor the Gnostics, nor Clement, nor the Neoplatonists were able to shake themselves free from the intellectual scheme, those things which—as they instinctively felt, but did not recognise—could really not be ascertained by knowledge at all received from them the name of suprarational and were traced to divine revelation.

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Because the riddles about the world which it desires to solve are not properly intellectual, but practical, because it desires to be in the end γνωσις σωτηριας, it removes into the region of the suprarational the powers which are supposed to confer vigour and life on the human spirit.

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