Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Contrary to nature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Contrary to nature.
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- adjective Against
nature ;unnatural .
Etymologies
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counter- + natural
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Examples
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In the case of supernatural and counternatural miracles, the occurrence itself is the sign; in the case of preternatural miracles, the whole set of circumstances is the sign.
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At the same time, preternatural miracles would be harder to prove, qua miraculous, than a counternatural or supernatural miracle would be, because the evidence would always be circumstantial.
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