Übermenschn.

1902 Pall Mall XXVI. 405/1 Where Bismarck exerted the full..strength of the Uebermensch, Bülow always remains the polite orator.

1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara Pref. in John Bull's Other Island 152 It is assumed, on the strength of the single word Superman (Übermensch) borrowed by me from Nietzsche, that I look for the salvation of society to the despotism of a single Napoleonic Superman.

1911 J. Ward Realm of Ends xx. 451 The struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest..will lead, he teaches, to a yet higher being, the Uebermensch or Over-man.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 403 Mead of our fathers for the Uebermensch.

1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. vii. 32 Take one's paltry measures against the coming Of the unknown Uebermensch.

1950 R. P. Blesh & H. Janis They all played Ragtime v. 85 A subtle but devastating caricature of the white Übermensch, employing the blackface like an African ceremonial mask.

1963 Economist 13 July 103/1 Doctor and detective übermenschen.

1977 Times 2 Sept. 11/4 I should like to know whether the Irish would be reckoned by him among the Übermenschen or the Untermenschen.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxix. 439 One really does feel übermenschlich—more than human.

1931 W. Stevens Harmonium 131 If it were lost in Übermenschlichkeit Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.