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n. - The state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits; A state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience.

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  • When I look down from this transcendency, how beautiful are even the crumbled relics of bread!
  • To those who perceive the nature and transcendency of mental force, all physical power sinks into insignificance.
  • He was so transcendency unconscious of the emotions going on in Mr. Bernard's mind at the moment, that he had only a single thought.
  • And indeed, he hasn't got more than a hundred words or so before we hear about the "great thirst for transcendency" among the young.
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