| 单词 |
over-soul |
| 释义 |
▪ I. ˈover-soul, n.
[over- 2.]
Emerson's name for the Deity regarded philosophically as the supreme spirit which animates the universe; used by later writers in the same or an analogous sense. Also, = superman.
1841–4Emerson Ess., Over-soul 270–1 That great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul within which each man's particular being is contained and made one with all other. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 19 With the American [Emerson], every elevated thought merges man for a time in the Oversoul. 1887H. R. Haweis Lt. of Ages i. i. 4 The Divine Spirit, the Great Oversoul has always been in contact with the human spirit. 1908[see beyond adv. and prep. D].
▪ II. ˈover-soul, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. In passive, to be ruled or dominated in respect of the soul. Hence over-ˈsouling vbl. n.
1916‘A. E.’ National Being ii. 13 None of our modern States create in us such an impression of being spiritually oversouled by an ideal as the great States of the ancient world. 1925D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 168 A primrose has its own peculiar primrosy identity, and all the oversouling in the world won't melt it into a Williamish oneness. |
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