Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tendency, habit. or system of ascribing preternatural qualities or powers to things which may be only natural; belief in the preternatural.
- noun Preternatural existence or existences.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.
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- noun The state of being
preternatural ; a preternatural condition.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But though it wanted only a touch to tip you into preternaturalism about these things, these things really were only natural things.
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But though it wanted only a touch to tip you into preternaturalism about these things, these things really were only natural things.
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If, however, it was the raw preternaturalism of such ballads as Buerger's which first led Scott to test his own powers, his genius soon turned to more appropriate and natural subjects.
Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878
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From our own liberal theology, the elements of unnaturalism, preternaturalism, supernaturalism, have disappeared almost as completely as they have from the systems of science.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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If, however, it was the raw preternaturalism of such ballads as
Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861
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