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单词 ultramundane
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Definition of ultramundane in English:

ultramundane

adjective ˌʌltrəˈmʌndeɪnˌəltrəmənˈdeɪn
literary
  • Existing outside the known world, the solar system, or the universe.

    an ultramundane god
    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.

    an ultramundane god
    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’).

 
 
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