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- adjective Above or beyond the
rational .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were mental processes, but love was beyond reason; it was superrational.
Chapter 23 2010
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Looking thus at life, shorn of its superrational sanctions, Saxon floundered into the morass of pessimism.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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His brain is filled with superrational sanctions and obsessions.
Chapter 36 2010
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Eudemian Ethics luck is viewed as a superrational impulse and in the Magna moralia as a natural, but praeter-rational impulse in the province of psychology.
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968
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For humanism makes an inhuman demand upon the will; it minimizes the force of the subrational and it largely ignores the superrational elements in human experience; it does not answer enough questions.
Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch
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But he insists that the humanist, in his ordinary definition of experience, ignores or denies these superrational values.
Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch
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The religious man is superrational and nobly imaginative as he emphasizes the _difference_ between man and nature.
Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch
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It is just because we do believe that the discovery, the expression and the rewards of religion lie chiefly in the superrational and poetic realms that therefore we want this intellectual content to accompany it, not supersede it, as a balancing influence, a steadying force.
Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch
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Looking thus at life, shorn of its superrational sanctions, Saxon floundered into the morass of pessimism.
Chapter 15 1913
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His brain is filled with superrational sanctions and obsessions.
Chapter XXXVI 1913
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