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  • adjective Having much greater powers that are above and beyond that of a normal human.

Etymologies

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supra- +‎ human

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Examples

  • In other words, morality is a byproduct of economic relationships and is not divine or suprahuman.

    Archive 2010-03-01 EAGEAGEAG 2010

  • In other words, morality is a byproduct of economic relationships and is not divine or suprahuman.

    Comrade Davis (repost) EAGEAGEAG 2010

  • Computers and e-mail software are designed to know which parts of the chains belong to which; they can wait for a message to arrive fully before delivering it, and they can do so on a scale that is suprahuman.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • It is the story of a man "inwardly seized by Christianity" (as he once wrote), seen preparing to seize the moment, putting human ambition in the service of suprahuman demands.

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • It is the story of a man "inwardly seized by Christianity" (as he once wrote), seen preparing to seize the moment, putting human ambition in the service of suprahuman demands.

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • It is the story of a man "inwardly seized by Christianity" (as he once wrote), seen preparing to seize the moment, putting human ambition in the service of suprahuman demands.

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • The Great Vamp returned, alas, and The Incredible Bosom underwent another suprahuman transformation.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Anyway, it seems that one of their innumerable holidays was about to conclude on Amado III when the climate controller monitoring equipment took itself off-line to go hunting for this mythical suprahuman intelligence.

    Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • A voice that wasn't part of The Eibon, but which seemed to emit from every column, wall, chair, and prop, a voice that was devoid of every human or suprahuman attribute, a voice whose tone didn't register the indignation I would have ascribed to its words if I hadn't been such an objective detective, said, "I am not a bub."

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • Page 358, Volume 2 ble for finite intellects, Hegel answered that such a suprahuman philosophical synthesis was possible only because the divine spirit, the Absolute, had already become incarnate in history, had united itself with mankind in the historical development of autonomy and intelligence, and had finally realized itself as self - consciousness in the understanding of the philosopher.

    IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968

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