preter-human
Appearance
See also: preterhuman
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]preter-human (comparative more preter-human, superlative most preter-human)
- (rare) Beyond what is human.
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter III, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 52:
- 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.