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Definition of Transcendencies
1. transcendency [n] - See also: transcendency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transcendencies
Literary usage of Transcendencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Masterpieces in English Literature, & Lessons in the English Language by Homer Baxter Sprague (1874)
"This would have done better in poesy, where transcendencies are more allowed;
... transcendencies are more allowed — lofty flights are more permissible ..."
2. Standard English Prose: Bacon to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1902)
"transcendencies, lofty flights ; language not held down to the prosaic fact. —14.
Not to be without mystery, ie with an allegorical meaning.—20. ..."
3. A Visit to Portugal and Madeira. by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1854)
"... and thus shall they go on, aspiring and uplifted, still leaguing majesties
with majesties, and triumphs with triumphs, and transcendencies with new ..."
4. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"One thinks how Plato wove and coloured his dialectic, and angled with it, after
those transcendencies that he well knew could never be so hooked and taken. ..."
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