rare. [f. as prec. + -ITY: cf. Ger. transcendentalität (D. Jenisch, in Kant Briefwechsel, 1902, III. 75).] Transcendental quality. (In quot. 1880 humorous.)
1841. Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), 12 May, 2/1. The Dial is the reputed organ of the Eastern transcendentalists, and some time since drew down upon itself no little ridicule by the publication of some most superlative transcendentalities under the head of ‘Orphic Sayings.’
1843. E. E. Salisbury, Arabic & Sanskrit Lit., 23. The Soofis, by the very prominence they gave to the transcendentality of the Deity, fell into pantheistic belief, the direct opposite of islamism.
1849. Rufus Choate, in E. G. Parker, Rem. (1860), 406–7. It is a dangerous, debauching power—an exception—a transcendentality, to take any Judge.
1880. W. S. Gilbert, Patience, I. 7. There is a transcendentality of delirium—an acute accentuation of supremest ecstacy.
1883. Dickinson (ND) Press, 15 Sept., 3/1. Think of the transcendentality of the hereafter indulging in the actuality of a clam!
