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preternature en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /pɹiːtəˈneɪtʃə/ (UK)

Etymology

From preter- + nature, after preternatural.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The realm beyond the natural; the preternatural.
    • In my own heart there dwells no faith in preter-nature. 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
    • We can speak here too, then, of pressure and, indeed, encroachment by the category of preternature on territory previously occupied by the miraculous. 1997, Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, page 263:

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preternatural

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