superethical

English

Etymology

super- +‎ ethical

Adjective

superethical (comparative more superethical, superlative most superethical)

1. More than ethical; above ethics.
   • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay

     Moral theology, which contains a superethical doctrine, as grave divines have ridiculously called it, rendered the system of ethics in the writings of the ancient fathers […] more confused […]

References

• “superethical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.