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/tɹænsˈɛndənt/
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[ US /tɹænˈsɛndənt/ ]
[ US /tɹænˈsɛndənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought - exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
How To Use transcendent In A Sentence
- The result of this inversion is for Chayes a new transcendentalism, one in which "the man raises himself to a level above both the human and the mundane natural" (Shelley 624). Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
- This support of the fabrication of the transcendent in its different modes, all of which, according to Diotima, come under the same propaedeutic: love of beauty.
- We honor Ralph Waldo Emerson, but where does Transcendentalism figure in anybody's life today?
- Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots. Frieze art fair 2010 – review
- The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide
- The violent enforcement of orthodoxy in Christian history is the necessary and logical consequence of seeing an institution as the agent and protector of transcendent truth.
- It seems that transcendental phenomenology inevitably involves solipsism.
- Mathematicians had regarded algebraic numbers as, in some sense, simpler than transcendental numbers.
- From that perch, one's picture of the cosmos grows to galactic proportions, dwarfing any prior world view and yielding a perspective transcendent beyond imagination.
- I explore optimistic possibilities in fictional worlds to express my hope for good and transcendent outcomes. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kay Kenyon