adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a preternatural spirit
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The story emphasizes the heroine's preternatural beauty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As she sat there, she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power.
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Autumn was here, on the heels of a mutilated summer, and it had arrived with preternatural speed.
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But I was one now, fused for a preternatural purpose.
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It loomed over him chuckling with preternatural malice.