supraterrestrial love

supraterrestrial

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as superterrestrial.

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Examples

  • It was as though a terrestrial morality was being used to challenge an alleged supraterrestrial morality, and at first it was unscrupu - lous rulers, like Catherine de 'Medici, and not the pious ones, like Mary Tudor, who were prepared to allow religious dissidence.

    CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Remembering what we have found earlier (Chapter X) to be the nature of lightning, we are now in a position to say: a supraterrestrial astral impulse obtains control of the earth's etheric and physical spheres of force in such a way that etheric substance is thrown into the condition of space-bound physical matter.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Hence, inasmuch as it rests upon a supraterrestrial element, the monarchical system, considered from the outlook of constitutional law, is eternal and immutable, and cannot be affected by human laws or by the human will.

    Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

  • Again reflecting on that extra-temporal delight caused whether by the sound of the spoon or by the taste of the madeleine, I said to myself: “Was this the happiness suggested by the little phrase of the Sonata, which Swann was deceived into identifying with the pleasure of love and was not endowed to find in artistic creation; that happiness which had made me respond as to a presentiment of something more supraterrestrial still than the little phrase of the Sonata, to the red and mysterious appeal of that septet which Swann did not know, having died like so many others, before the truth, meant for them, had been revealed?”

    Time Regained 2003

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