transcendency
(trɑːnˈsɛndənsɪ, træn-)
[f. as prec.: see -ency.]
a. The condition or quality of being transcendent; excess; surpassing excellency; with pl. a transcendent quality.
| 1615 Day Festivals xii. 341, I speake not against Lawfull Purchasing, it is that Transcendency I strike at, when Men depopulate whole Countries, to people the Land forsooth with Sheepe. 1662 Evelyn Chalcogr. Pref., Your modesty do's not permit me to run through all those Transcendencies. 1681 Glanvill Sadducismus ii. (1726) 462 The Essential Sanctity and singular Transcendency of the exalted nature of God. 1857 Gladstone Oxf. Ess. 8 The transcendency of his poetical distinctions has tended to overshadow his other claims and uses. 1886 Westm. Rev. Oct. 469 Christ..never reflected on transcendency and immanency. |
b. The fact of transcending: = transcendence 1; an instance of this.
| 1902 W. James Let. 14 Dec. (1920) II. 179, I believe that the ‘transcendency’ of the object will not recover from your treatment. 1907 J. Orr in Life of Faith 9 Jan. 26/1 Such deviations from or transcendencies of the natural order we call miracles. |