"supermannish" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more supermannish [comparative], most supermannish [superlative]
Etymology: From superman + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|superman|ish}} superman + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} supermannish (comparative more supermannish, superlative most supermannish)
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a superman.
    Sense id: en-supermannish-en-adj-4jgXbpuz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish

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          "ref": "1910 June 9, Cally Ryland, “Every Day Trials of Life”, in The Washburn Times, volume 18, number 5, Washburn, Wis.",
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          "ref": "1911, Jefferson Butler Fletcher, “Preface”, in The Religion of Beauty in Women and Other Essays on Platonic Love in Poetry and Society, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page vii",
          "text": "Her influence has been held supermannish—daimonic or demonic—under the prevalence of ideals monastic, chivalric, or platonic; […]",
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          "ref": "1915 April 15, “Notes on New Novels”, in Waldo R. Browne, editor, The Dial: A Fortnightly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information, volume LVIII, number 692, Chicago, Ill.: The Henry O. Shepard Co., page 305, column 2",
          "text": "Her second lover is as disagreeable a cad as one is likely to meet, who exhibits a supermannish selfishness in his love that makes one wonder why he should have consented to a secret marriage.",
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          "ref": "2002, Esther Leslie, Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde, Verso, page 140",
          "text": "The real body can only ever be an imperfect, failed imitation of the higher supermannish archetype.",
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          "ref": "2002, Dave Beech, John Roberts, The Philistine Controversy, London, New York, N.Y.: Verso, page 216",
          "text": "‘Der Sieger’ (The Victor) from 1927, used a large section of a bulky torso and a composite head, twisted to gaze into that middle distance familiar from propaganda imagery of supermannish strong heroes.",
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          "ref": "2009, Robert Crawford, Scotland’s Books: A History of Scottish Literature, Oxford University Press, page 462",
          "text": "Though Engels and others saw in Carlyle a compelling arguer against social ills, his own ideology with its worship of supermannish heroes, ‘the select of the earth’, takes its bearings from a secularization of the Calvinist idea of the elect, and points towards both Nietzsche and fascism.",
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