单词	preternatural
释义	preternaturalpre‧ter‧nat‧u‧ral /ˌpriːtəˈnætʃərəl◂ $ -tər-/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINpreternatural Origin: 1500-1600 Medieval Latin praeternaturalis, from Latin praeter naturam ‘beyond nature’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a preternatural spirit The story emphasizes the heroine's preternatural beauty. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As she sat there, she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power. Autumn was here, on the heels of a mutilated summer, and it had arrived with preternatural speed. But I was one now, fused for a preternatural purpose. It loomed over him chuckling with preternatural malice. 1beyond what is usual or normal:  He felt possessed of a preternatural strength and fearlessness.2strange, mysterious, and unnatural:  the preternatural green light—preternaturally adverb:  The town was preternaturally quiet.
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