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单词 preternaturally
释义
preternaturalpre‧ter‧nat‧u‧ral /ˌpriːtəˈnætʃərəl◂ $ -tər-/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpreternatural
Origin:
1500-1600 Medieval Latin praeternaturalis, from Latin praeter naturam ‘beyond nature’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a preternatural spirit
  • The story emphasizes the heroine's preternatural beauty.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • As she sat there, she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power.
  • Autumn was here, on the heels of a mutilated summer, and it had arrived with preternatural speed.
  • But I was one now, fused for a preternatural purpose.
  • It loomed over him chuckling with preternatural malice.
1beyond what is usual or normal:  He felt possessed of a preternatural strength and fearlessness.2strange, mysterious, and unnatural:  the preternatural green lightpreternaturally adverb:  The town was preternaturally quiet.
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