superagencyn.
/ˈsuːpərˌeɪdʒ(ə)nsi/, /ˈsjuːpərˌeɪdʒ(ə)nsi/, U.S. /ˈsupərˌeɪdʒ(ə)nsi/ Higher or superior power, esp. of a supernatural nature. Also: a force or being having this; a superior agency.
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1801 E. Meeke Which is the Man? IV. liii. 256 We have not employed the super-agency of ghosts.
1854 King Mongkut in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 700/1 Him blessing the superagency of the universe; whose characteristics..are always difficult to be exactly known.
1978 M. Meiselman Jewish Woman in Jewish Law xvi. 101 The notion of a superagency that creates or dispenses with another person's personal status is entirely repulsive to the Jewish mind.
2007 S. Inayatullah in P. van der Duin Knowing Tomorrow? vi. 95 To Galtung, Foucault and Sorokin..superagency is not a possibility. The intervention of God..is not an empirical possibility.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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