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transcendence|trɑːnˈsɛndəns, træn-|
[ad. med.L. transcendentia, f. L. transcendent-em transcendent: see -ence. Cf. F. transcendance (18th c.).]
1. The action or fact of transcending, surmounting, or rising above; † ascent, elevation (obs.); excelling, surpassing; also, the condition or quality of being transcendent, surpassing eminence or excellence: = transcendency.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. iii. 40 In a most weake—..And debile minister, great power, great transcendence. 1644Digby Nat. Soul x. §7 There is a transcendence from science to science. 1678Lively Oracles ii. xix, God, in whom all those qualifications are united, and that in their utmost transcendences. 1744Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. (1765) 215 That very Transcendence is an Argument on its behalf. 1802A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 27 When we reflect that he had been excelled in every separate order of verse, justice may scruple the imputed transcendence. 1876T. S. Egan tr. Heine's Atta Troll, etc. 43 A temple, whose transcendence Indicates the Almighty's glory. 1907Illingworth Doctr. Trinity xi. 226 We expect to see Divine action manifested through the operation of general laws, and not through their occasional transcendence.
b. spec. Of the Deity: The attribute of being above and independent of the universe; distinguished from immanence (see immanent 1).
1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation iii. (1852) 32 That Deistic theory of Transcendence, which supposes that the qualities of matter having been bestowed upon it by its Maker, everything has been left to go on by the impulse which was originally bestowed. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 214 Not always..able to embrace fully and together these two conceptions of transcendence and of immanence. 1896Chicago Advance 16 Apr. 567/2 We have been accustomed to believe that nature reveals God in his immanence, but that Christ reveals God in his transcendence. 1907Illingworth Doctr. Trinity x. 197 Divine immanence and divine transcendence are not mutually exclusive, but essentially correlative conceptions.
†2. Elevation or extension beyond ordinary limits; exaggeration, hyperbole. Obs. rare.
1625Bacon Ess., Adversitie (Arb.) 504 This would have done better in Poesy; where Transcendences are more allowed. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 234 Why..should they be such crabbed masorites of the Letter, as not to mollifie a transcendence of literal rigidity?
3. Math. The fact of being transcendental: see transcendental 4.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 287/2 Lindemann by a similar process proved the transcendence of π. |