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preternatural
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synonyms: unwonted ???
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Definition:Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Farouk was one of those fearless souls whose life had become one long adventure. He was deeply at ease with himself, exuding an air of preternatural calmness, and so when he remarked that he had been shit-scared while fishing with his brothers-in-law, I paid attention.
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, pp.148-149 (2004)
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I could hear his heart under my ear, beating with the preternaturally slow and powerful rhythm that follows climax.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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It did not need a preternaturally keen observer to deduce what had happened. Beale must have fallen out with the young man who was sitting on the grass and smitten him, and now his friend had taken up the quarrel.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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and his thoughts were preternaturally clear.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 12 (Book Twelve)
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she started up—her hair flying over her shoulders, her eyes flashing, the muscles of her neck and arms standing out preternaturally.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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I wiped my tears and hushed my sobs, fearful lest any sign of violent grief might waken a preternatural voice to comfort me,
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