[f. as prec.: see -ENCY.] The condition or quality of being transcendent; excess; surpassing excellency; with pl. a transcendent quality.
1615. Day, Festivals, xii. 341. I speake not against Lawfull Purchasing, it is that Transcendency I strike at, when Men depopulate whole Countries, to people the Land forsooth with Sheepe.
1662. Evelyn, Chalcogr., Pref. Your modesty do ’s not permit me to run through all those Transcendencies.
1681. Glanvill, Sadducismus, II. (1726), 462. The Essential Sanctity and singular Transcendency of the exalted nature of God.
1857. Gladstone, Oxf. Ess., 8. The transcendency of his poetical distinctions has tended to overshadow his other claims and uses.
1886. Westm. Rev., Oct., 469. Christ … never reflected on transcendency and immanency.
b. The fact of transcending: = TRANSCENDENCE 1; an instance of this.
1907. J. Orr, in Life of Faith, 9 Jan., 26/1. Such deviations from or transcendencies of the natural order we call miracles.
