transcendent
pronunciation
How to pronounce transcendent in British English:
UK [trænˈsendənt]
How to pronounce transcendent in American English:
US [trænˈsɛndənt]
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- Adjective:
- beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
- exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
Word Origin
- transcendent (adj.)
- mid-15c., from Latin transcendentem (nominative transcendens) "surmounting, rising above," present participle of transcendere (see transcend). Related: Transcendently.
Example
- 1. Will it become the transcendent moment for our species or the beginning of the end ?
- 2. Apollo was not seen only as a victory for one of two antagonistic ideologies . Rather , the strongest emotion at the time of the moon landings was of wonder at the transcendent power of technology .
- 3. What the master called " the ordering of men 's affairs by a transcendent world state , ordained by god and answerable to no man " , which we now know as communist world government , advances towards its climax at copenhagen .
- 4. He was a man of great gifts , and of transcendent force of character .
- 5. Remember scripture is both literal and transcendent .