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Definition of Supernature
1. Noun. The quality of being supernatural, or of a strange or uncertain nature. ¹
2. Noun. (theology philosophy) A level of existence above the physical or mundane; that which is above and beyond the material nature of something. ¹
3. Noun. The supernatural or occult realm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supernature
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supernature
Literary usage of Supernature
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christian Thought by Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins, Amory Howe Bradford (1886)
"supernature is all that nature is not, or for which nature cannot account.
supernature is God existing; nature is God manifested. ..."
2. What is Adaptation? by Richard Ernest Lloyd (1914)
"We are conscious of nature, that is to say of all that lies within the sphere of
sense and reason, and we are also aware of what may be called supernature, ..."
3. The Philosophy of the Supernatural by William Henry Platt (1886)
"In the natural evolution of supernature, the greater is from the less or the whole
... Our reasoning, whether from supernature to nature, or from nature to ..."
4. Guesses at Truths, Ethical, Social, Political and Literary by David Christie Murray (1908)
"NATURE AND supernature. FINDING the other day on a station bookstall a slight
brochure entitled, " Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley," and priced ..."
5. There and Back: A Story by George MacDonald (1891)
"... CHAPTER XLL NATURE AND supernature. Bur Richard soon began to recover both
from the separation and from his disappointment in regard to his letter. ..."
6. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1886)
"Nature is all that it can prove itself to be, and supernature is all that nature
is not, and which it cannot prove itself to be. ..."
7. Liberalism, Modernism and Tradition: Bishop Paddock Lectures, 1922 by Oliver Chase Quick (1922)
"On the distinction between nature and supernature, natural virtue and supernatural
grace, the moral law fulfilled by the one and the counsels of perfection ..."
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