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transcendent |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Transcendent \Tran*scend"ent\, a. [L. transcendens, -entis, p. pr of transcendere to transcend: cf F. transcendant, G. transcendent.] 1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others as transcendent worth; transcendent valor. Clothed with transcendent brightness. --Milton. 2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: transcendent adj 1: beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of lifer" [syn: {unknowable}] 2: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence [syn: {surpassing}]
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