Meanings
adjectivepreter-human (comparative more preter-human, superlative most preter-human)
comparative more preter-human · superlative most preter-human
- rareBeyond what is human.
He exerted preter-human self-denial in abstaining from finishing him, completely; but getting out of breath, he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body onto the settle.
1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter III, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 52
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