meaning of transcendent
1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
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.
3. 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
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