preterhuman
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of preterhuman
Example Sentences
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She had scarcely appeared on the threshold, cloaked and screened by her thick black veil, when a clear voice, whose tones were preterhuman in their melody, addressed her.
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
He saw, it is true, the terrible danger with which the flight was connected, but he was comforted at thought of the preterhuman strength of Ursus.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
Sister Angelica, the nurse, had watched her patient with preterhuman vigilance.
From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
The remote desert, the solitary rock, the rude dwelling hollowed from the cave, the eternal commune with their own hearts, with nature, and their dreams of God,—all make a picture of severe and preterhuman grandeur.
From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
In the legends which the Indian story-fellers recount in winter, about their cabin fires, Atotarho figures as a being of preterhuman nature, whose head, in lieu of hair, is adorned with living snakes.
From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Hale, Horatio
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