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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRANSCEND'ENCE
TRANSCEND'ENCY, n. Superior excellence; supereminence.
1. Elevation above truth; exaggeration.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience [syn: transcendence, transcendency]
2: the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits [syn: transcendence, transcendency, superiority]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1601 the quality or state of being transcendent

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Transcendence Tran*scend"ence (-ens), Transcendency Tran*scend"en*cy (-en*s[y^]), [Cf. L. transcendentia, F. transcendance.] 1. The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence. The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle. --A. V. G. Allen. 2. Elevation above truth; exaggeration. [Obs.] ``Where transcendencies are more allowed.'' --Bacon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Transcendence is the quality of being able to go beyond normal limits or boundaries. ...the transcendence of class differences.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also transcendency) Supereminence, superior excellence, marked superiority.