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suprareligious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /su.pɹəɹɪˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/ (General-American)
• /s(j)uː.pɹəɹɪˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From supra- + religious.

Meanings

1. (rare) Transcending religion; unbound by any limits of religion itself.
   • A new suprareligious and supraphilosophical moral elite of people full of concern and sacrifice for the problems of the entire humanity is growing in the whole world. Many governments are today working to avoid common dangers (contamination, starvation, overpopulation) threatening the whole humanity. 1973, Arvind N. Das, Dialectics and Humanism, Volume 1, Warsaw University, World Order and Peace Research Project, →ISBN, page 27:
   • We may believe that narrative preaching remains the most appropriate vehicle for the witnessing of the Name in our day. Much that generally annoys the systematician remains indispensable if one is to do even partial justice to the suprareligious character of preaching. 1967, Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, When the Gods Are Silent, Harper and Row, page 206:
   • It may be asked whether the religion of the Bab would have taken this universal and in a sense suprareligious turn had their leader not been exiled and forced to flee from Iran and whether this evolution is due to its estrangement from Iran and the Western influences. 1946, William S. Haas, Iran, page 91:
   • The rules of the game based on such a suprareligious and supranational morality would seriously conflict with many of our current habits in living. 1961, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct, Hoeber-Harper, page 205:
   • Among the number of specialists the scholars and intellectuals of the House of Life should be included. We will later have occasion to study in detail what we know of these suprareligious institutions; let us say simply that these were the rooms near the temple where the liturgical books necessary to the cult were written, among others, and where the elements of the sacred body of knowledge were worked out. 1960, Serge Sauneron, The Priests of Ancient Egypt, Grove Press, page 63:
   • Some recent events like the Kisan agitation led by Chaudhry Mahendra Singh Tikait and the several Gujjar gatherings commandeered by Rajesh Pilot have made it clear that these are suprareligious occurrences. 1994, Arvind N. Das, India Invented: A Nation-in-the Making, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 117:
   • In 1968, I came very close to death, to suicide, and giving myself up in that sense. But after that I found a suprareligious way for myself. I didn't think of myself any longer as a member of a particular social group. 1974, Jonathan Cott, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 26:

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