单词 | supernaturality |
释义 | supernaturalityn. 1. The quality or fact of being supernatural; supernatural character; supernaturalness. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > [noun] > quality of being supernaturality1581 supernaturalness1657 supernaturalism1764 preternaturalism1834 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise v. f. 72v How may our fragilitie sayis S. Augustin discus the supernaturalitie of heuinlie thingis. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vi. §74. 381 If these be certain grounds of supernaturality, our faith may have it as well as yours. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 75 That Supernaturalitie is a Mode..included in al virtuose Habits..because human Nature,..as now corrupted, cannot reach an end or act supernatural. 1721 W. Darrell Treat. Real Presence: 2nd Pt. vii. 31 To mark the Supernaturality of the Action; to shew it was an extraordinary Work of God, not of Nature. 1790 C. E. de Coetlogon Essent. Deity Messiah 16 The Supernaturality and Grandeur of such Manifestations as These..are perfectly consistent with this sublime Idea..that God was manifested in the Flesh. 1866 J. Shanks Elgin 28 The element of wonder or supernaturality. 1883 Boston Investigator 18 July 5/3 The fortress of Evolution and its guns are directed towards our citadel of supernaturality. 1938 Irish Monthly Jan. 51 The strong objection against the supernaturality of the results of such concentration is the indifference of the object upon which the mind is focussed. 2002 P. Crawford Politics & Hist. W. Golding ii. 61 Supernaturality is..registered..in the description of Simon's body, which..is devoured by ‘sea monsters’. 2. Something that is supernatural; a supernatural thing, being, or occurrence. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > [noun] > supernatural thing(s) supernaturals1605 supernaturality1665 wishtnessc1800 supernaturalisms1829 preternaturalism1858 1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 81 I wonder what else is Supernaturality but this which he miscalls Nature. 1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles IV. 365 We will never see that our own poetical supernaturalities are the same as those of Greece. a1856 H. Miller Rambles Geologist (1858) vi. 322 A meal-mill..once known as the scene of one of those supernaturalities that belong to the times of the witch and the fairy. 1919 G. Saintsbury Hist. French Novel I. ii. 77 They came less and less to depend upon, extravagant incident, violent peripeteias, cheap supernaturalities, etc. 2004 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 1 June g3 ‘I hate to mention this, Judge, an infernal supernaturality such as the bizarre case in Burlington, Vermont’. He spoke of aborted late-term babies and their blood being drained for use in a Black Mass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1581 |
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