super-supernatural

comparative more super-supernatural · superlative most super-supernatural · alternative supersupernatural

1. rareAbove and beyond the supernatural; being unbounded by the supernatural limits, such as the individual soul.

   Now that the CLOD has decided that it is naughty to see the show, its business probably will become super-supernatural.

   1947, Toby Litt, Box Office, Associated Publications, page 59

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   It is possible, and also probable, that a time will come when an invention will be produced to make the submarine useless. There are no anti-super dreadnaughts now, but there will probably come an invention known as a super-supernatural dreadnaught.

   1920, Benjamin Schwartzberg, Morris Schwartzberg, Uncivilized Civilization, The New Era Publishing Company, page 15

   I was thinking about it last night: wondering where it would be. Somewhere in the spaces of the night — between the stars. Don’t you often wonder whether a soul has a chemical origin? Some day clever men will discover. Souls have substance, more tenuous than light. And light has substance. You can bend light with a magnet: I have seen it done. The ether has substance: compared with other unknown elements, ether may be as thick as treacle. Supposing some super-supernatural scientist could examine the ether as we examine a shovel full of earth? Is it not possible that the soul germ might be discovered? For a soul has no size and no weight and no likeness to man.

   1922, Edgar Wallace, Captain of Souls, Small, Maynard and Company, page 206

   But why are we bound to treat what is natural as something actually superior to what is supernatural; as something which is not even merely supernatural, but is in the exact sense super-supernatural?

   2006, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Well and the Shallows, Ignatius Press, Sheed and Ward Company, →ISBN, page 158