rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or character of being transcendent: = TRANSCENDENCY.
1625. Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar, viii. 75. Why are you enraged against me, if I cannot attaine the measure of your transcendentnesse, but confesse my disability and imperfection?
1730. [see TRANSCENDINGNESS].
1874. Pusey, Lent. Serm., 308. [S. Paul] piles up words upon words to utter as he may, that which is unutterable; the transcendentness of the might of the grace of God to usward.
