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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Transcendent

/trăn-sĕn'-dənt/ · Tran·scend·ent · IPA /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndənt/
01 a. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
  1. 1.
    Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
    “Clothed with transcendent brightness.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.(Kantian Philos.)
02 n. That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
  1. 1.
    That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.