transcendencen.
/trɑːnˈsɛnd(ə)ns/, /tranˈsɛnd(ə)ns/, U.S. /træn(t)ˈsɛndəns/ 1.
a. The action or fact of transcending, surmounting, or rising above; †ascent, elevation (obsolete); excelling, surpassing; also, the condition or quality of being transcendent, surpassing eminence or excellence: = transcendency n.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun]
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uprise1690
anabasis1706
upshift1839
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [noun]
pricea1275
sovereigntyc1340
primacyc1384
sublimityc1429
vassalagec1430
precellence?a1439
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transcendentalism1841
surpassingness1879
transcendentality1881
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > going beyond bounds
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surmounting14..
supergressiona1550
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debordment1603
pretergression1615
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transcension?1624
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excess1818
overstep1822
overstepping1823
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transcendency1902
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a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 36 In a most weake—..And debile minister great power, great trancendence[also 1632].
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. x. 428 There is a transcendence from science to science.
1678 Lively Oracles ii. xix God, in whom all those qualifications are united, and that in their utmost transcendences.
1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 215 That very Transcendence, said he, is an Argument on its behalf.
1802 A. 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.
1876 T. S. Egan tr. H. Heine Atta Troll 43 A temple, whose transcendence Indicates the Almighty's glory.
1907 J. R. Illingworth 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 adj. 1).
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > being independent of universe
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transcendentia1674
transcendence1848
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1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation (1852) iii. 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.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 214 Not always..able to embrace fully and together these two conceptions of transcendence and of immanence.
1896 Chicago 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.
1907 J. R. Illingworth Doctr. Trinity x. 197 Divine immanence and divine transcendence are not mutually exclusive, but essentially correlative conceptions.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun]
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transcendence1625
aggravation1628
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claptrap1819
overcolouring1843
mirch masala1980
mirch1985
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > hyperbole
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transcendence1625
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1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 22 This would have done better in Poesy; where Transcendences are more allowed.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 62 Why..should they be such crabbed masorites of the Letter, as not to mollifie a transcendence of literal rigidity.
3. Mathematics. The fact of being transcendental: see transcendental adj. 4.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > irrational
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transcendence1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 287/2 Lindemann by a similar process proved the transcendence of π.
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