What does the word preternatural mean?
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Part of speech: adverb
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Preternaturally.
Part of speech: adjective
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Beyond
what
is
natural.
Usage examples for preternatural
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A
gentleman,
however
gallant
and
familiar,
will
hardly
ever
be
as
much
beloved,
until
he
dies
to
inform
a
legend
or
a
ballad:
seeing
that
death
only
can
remove
the
peculiar
distinctions
and
distances
which
the
people
feel
to
exist
between
themselves
and
the
gentleman-
class,
and
which,
not
to
credit
them
with
preternatural
discernment,
they
are
carefully
taught
to
feel.
– The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
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This
preternatural
certainty
of
happiness
was
so
complete
that
the
chilling
disappointments
of
the
last
few
days
had
melted
before
it
like
frost
in
the
sunlight.
– Virginia by Ellen Glasgow
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In
her
religious
heart,
might
there
not
be
some
shadow
of
an
ancient
superstition,
some
mystical,
instinctive
strain,
in
which
the
preternatural
is
resolved?
– The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani