Definition of ultramundane in English:
ultramundane
adjective ˌʌltrəˈmʌndeɪnˌəltrəmənˈdeɪn
literary Existing outside the known world, the solar system, or the universe.
Example sentencesExamples
- The very name ‘ultramundane’ coined by Lesage makes it clear that the corpuscles are not in equilibrium with ordinary matter.
- He has so much, grandeur, his appearance is imposing and in general His Divine countenance overflows with heavenly grace and an inexpressible ultramundane beauty.
- That is what the tyrannies of the twentieth century had proven - that ultramundane humanism is inevitably inhuman humanism.
- Europe's epic was surely back in the Trecento, in Dante's ultramundane city: somewhere in that great meditation on divine fiat and human ingenium might have been the sign to ward off the evil.
- The presence of this entity signifies intense levels of ultramundane energies and dimensional rifts and when detected evokes the joyfully horrific.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin ultramundanus, from ultra 'beyond' + mundanus (from mundus 'world').
Definition of ultramundane in US English:
ultramundane
adjectiveˌəltrəmənˈdānˌəltrəmənˈdeɪn
literary Existing outside the known world, the solar system, or the universe.
Example sentencesExamples
- He has so much, grandeur, his appearance is imposing and in general His Divine countenance overflows with heavenly grace and an inexpressible ultramundane beauty.
- Europe's epic was surely back in the Trecento, in Dante's ultramundane city: somewhere in that great meditation on divine fiat and human ingenium might have been the sign to ward off the evil.
- That is what the tyrannies of the twentieth century had proven - that ultramundane humanism is inevitably inhuman humanism.
- The presence of this entity signifies intense levels of ultramundane energies and dimensional rifts and when detected evokes the joyfully horrific.
- The very name ‘ultramundane’ coined by Lesage makes it clear that the corpuscles are not in equilibrium with ordinary matter.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin ultramundanus, from ultra ‘beyond’ + mundanus (from mundus ‘world’).