| 释义 |
supra-ˈpersonal, a.
[supra- 4 a.]
= superpersonal a.
1918J. H. Leckie World to Come ii. 322 The notion..of attaining some supra-personal state of being is not an idea that can appear reasonable. 1934M. Bodkin Archetypal Patterns in Poetry 276 The sense of..a supra-personal life present within the group, which is made explicit in the writings of St. Paul. 1949H. Read Conc. Hist. Mod. Painting vii. 249 The ‘vibrations of the spirit’ that then take place are.. perhaps supra-personal, in that they assume the archetypal patterns into which mankind projects an explanation of its destiny. 1955J. Burnaby Christian Words & Christian Meanings iii. 48 It may sometimes be wholesome for us to tell ourselves that God is not ‘a person’, but ‘supra-personal’, or even ‘Absolute Being’. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May 278/3 Its [sc. The Warburg Institute's] character is also suprapersonal, and it is never likely to lose its identity and be submerged in some more general apparatus of historical research. 1972M. Kirkham in Focus on Robert Graves No. 3 (1973) 40 The feeling might be called impersonal, in the sense that it reflects..everybody's response to a general condition; a better word would be ‘suprapersonal’, to signify a going-beyond personality. |