Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes in the supernatural; a believer in supernaturalism. Also called
supranaturalist . - Same as
supernaturalistic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who holds to the principles of supernaturalism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who believes in the
supernatural - noun An advocate of
supernaturalism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to supernaturalism
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Examples
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The supernaturalist is simply content with a lack of explanation.
ACLU wins in Dover 2005
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Sun 10/25/09 1: 50 PM you should definitely check out half-moon investigations! adults will enjoy it as well as kids and young adults. i might even check out and another thing, even though i haven’t read the rest of the hitchhiker’s guide series. i’ve also heard that the supernaturalist is good as well, but hard to find like airman and the wish list. guess i’ll have to buy online, lol.
Nightstand inspection! Who's reading something awesome? | EW.com 2009
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For the supernaturalist, the phrase ‘natural explanations’ does not just undermine his view of science but actually excludes it by definition.
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For the supernaturalist, the phrase ‘natural explanations’ does not just undermine his view of science but actually excludes it by definition.
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Two of my novels have won the World Fantasy Award, and yet the secular-humanist sensibility underlying Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah could not be further from the supernaturalist teleology of J.R.R. Tolkien, a writer I admire on grounds other than his Catholicism, and the allegorical apologetics of C.S. Lewis, whom I detest on every ground I can imagine.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion? 2008
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Then the supernaturalist will be just as free as the naturalist to make testable explanations of natural phenomena.
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Then the supernaturalist will be just as free as the naturalist to make testable explanations of natural phenomena.
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Bilgrami motivates in order to mount his ambitious argument appears to the fundamentalist as a symptom of the underlying problem of modernity, a symptom that is all the more dangerous precisely because it offers itself as a solution to that problem by promising, in the best natural supernaturalist manner, a new heaven and a new earth: THE CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY based on socialistic principles and deceitfully called
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As a committed supernaturalist, I tend to think we should read other traditions with charity, but would ask the same for my own tradition.
Miracles and the Golden Rule: A Christian Approach to History James F. McGrath 2009
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Again: "Closer to Defending Your Life, [Albert] Brooks's earlier parody of the supernaturalist film blanc, The Muse's deceptive slightness masks a darker purpose."
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