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super-supernatural en · ADJ

Etymology

From super- + supernatural

Meanings

1. (rare) Above and beyond the supernatural; being unbounded by the supernatural limits, such as the individual soul.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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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