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oversouls

oversouls is the plural of oversoul.

Meaning of oversoul

Noun

oversoul (plural oversouls)

  1. (especially) A supreme reality or mind; the spiritual unity of all being.
    • The Supreme Critic on all the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is 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 every man's particular being is contained and made one...1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Over-Soul”, in Essays: Orations and Lectures, London: William Tegg and Co., published 1848, page 155

Questions about oversouls

What is oversouls the plural of?
Oversouls is the plural of oversoul.

Words near oversouls in the dictionary

  1. oversorrowing
  2. oversorrows
  3. oversot
  4. oversoul
  5. oversouling
  6. oversouls
  7. oversour
  8. oversoured
  9. oversouring
  10. oversours
  11. oversow

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