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Definition of Transcendent
1. Adjective. Exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence.
Similar to: Superior
Derivative terms: Transcend, Transcend, Transcendence, Transcendency
2. Adjective. Beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding. "The notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought"
Definition of Transcendent
1. a. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
2. n. That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
Definition of Transcendent
1. Adjective. surpassing usual limits ¹
2. Adjective. beyond the range of usual perception ¹
3. Adjective. free from constraints of the material world ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transcendent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transcendent
Literary usage of Transcendent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This task they accomplished in various ways, eliminating, transforming, or adapting
the transcendent reality outside us, the thing-m-itself, ..."
2. Inquiry Into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England by John Allen (1849)
"Transcendent ATTRIBUTES OF THE KING. JL O unlearned persons desirous of understanding
the constitution of England, the transcendent attributes ascribed to ..."
3. A Handy Guide for Beggars: Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity; Being by Vachel Lindsay (1916)
"I USED to think, when the corn was blowing, Of my lost lady, Life Transcendent,
Of her valiant way, of her pride resplendent : For the corn swayed round, ..."
4. A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason: Translated from The by Kuno Fischer, John Pentland Mahaffy (1866)
"The Immanent and Transcendent Value of the Pure Concepts—Transcendent and
Transcendental.—Qf things in themselves our understanding can know nothing, ..."
5. Philosophy of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Nature, Limits, and Validity of by George Trumbull Ladd (1897)
"... EXPERIENCE AND THE Transcendent THAT man can, in no manner and under no
conceivable circumstances, transcend his own experience is customarily thought ..."
6. Philosophy of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Nature, Limits, and Validity of by George Trumbull Ladd (1897)
"Indeed, the shifting meanings which are given by the contestants to such terms
as " experience," " cognition,"' " the transcendent," ete., ..."