preterhuman
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of preterhuman
Example Sentences
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Sister Angelica, the nurse, had watched her patient with preterhuman vigilance.
From Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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 Jeremiah Curtin
Another legend, of which I have not before heard, professed to give the origin both of the abnormal ferocity and of the preterhuman powers of Atotarho.
From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
I am aware that Peters was, both in strength and in agility, almost preterhuman; but fifty feet or thereabouts!
From A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake
In the legends which the Indian story-tellers 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.
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