See also: preterhuman

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preter-human (comparative more preter-human, superlative most preter-human)

  1. (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.