preternature
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From preter- + nature, after preternatural.
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preternature (uncountable)
- (rare) The realm beyond the natural; the preternatural. [from 19th c.]
- 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
- In my own heart there dwells no faith in preter-nature.
- 1997, Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, page 263:
- We can speak here too, then, of pressure and, indeed, encroachment by the category of preternature on territory previously occupied by the miraculous.