superhistorical

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superhistorical (comparative more superhistorical, superlative most superhistorical)

Above or beyond history.
- 1954, Marshall Fishwick, “American Heroes:Columbia's Path”, in Western Folklore, volume 13, number 2/3, page 155:
  In our day Roy Basler's The Lincoln Legend and Lloyd Lewis' Myths After Lincoln have demonstrated that the most popular and admired of all American heroes has long ago been made superhistorical in myth; he has become, at least north of the Potomac, a household deity.
- 2008, David Bradshaw, A Concise Companion to Modernism, page 67:
  It is rather that, precisely because it is fraught with history, a work like Ulysses affirms the need to see the experience simultaneously under a superhistorical sign.