preterhuman
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of preterhuman
Example Sentences
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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
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
Here the thought of Ursus with his preterhuman power flashed into Vinicius's head; but what could be done by a man, even were he a Titan, against the destructive force of fire?
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
Despite her age—for she had passed into middle life before she had borne Pausanias—Alithea retained all the traces of a marvellous and almost preterhuman beauty.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
I am aware that Peters was, both in strength and in agility, almost preterhuman; but fifty feet or thereabouts!
From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn
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