Definition of "superbeing"

The detective’s appeal to the Spaniard probably lay in the fact that, like Don Juan, he was a superbeing. This is doubtless, too, the explanation of his attraction for the rest of humanity; but the interesting feature of his Spanish vogue is that in fiction and in drama he was elaborated, if not improved, upon.

1931, The Modern Language Forum 1931-06: Volume 16 Issue 3‎, Modern and Classical Language Association, page 90

When they undertook to describe in words the ineffable nature of the supreme reality, Erigena called it the superbeing which is the being of all things; Anselm, that than which nothing greater can be thought; Abelard, a trinity of power, wisdom, and goodness; Bernard, the bridegroom of the soul; Isaac, that which exists through, of, and in itself.

1951, George Bosworth Burch, Early Medieval Philosophy‎, King's Crown Press, page 122

Possibly such events were exceptional, but the activities of shamans among the masses of the people in early medieval times probably owe the little attention they have received to the failure of documentation. What we get in the best literature is an emphasis on the refined offshoots of shamans—the transcendent superbeings (hsien) of Taoism.

1973, Edward H. Schafer, The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'ang Literature‎, North Point Press, page 14

Until the 1960s and 1970s when movie stars, comic-book superbeings, and other mythic figures threatened to crowd out more accessible models of behavior and understanding, the lawyer-hero and the writer-hero occupied an important place in the spectrum of postmartial heroism.

1979, George Bosworth Burch, Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing‎, Belknap Press of Harvard, page 141

It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being.

2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133