ppl. a. [f. TRANSCEND v. + -ING2.] That transcends; surpassing; supereminent; transcendent.
a. 1529. [implied in TRANSCENDINGLY].
1598. [see TRANSCENDENT A. 1].
1641. Vind. Smectymnuus, xiii. 113. A building of that transcending loftiness.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., IV. xii. 216. Man … being endowed with the transcending Faculty of Reason.
1852. Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Madonna, 196. An angel … might well prostrate himself as witness of the transcending miracle.
Hence Transcendingly adv., transcendently; Transcendingness, transcendence.
a. 1529. Skelton, Replyc., Wks. 1862, II. 232. Excellently enformed and transcendingly sped in moche high connyng.
1730. Bailey (folio), Transcendentness, Transcendingness Surpassingness.
1817. A. Bonar, Serm., II. xx. 443. How transcendingly glorious does he appear!
1874. Pusey, Lent. Serm., 306. ‘That the transcendingness of the power,’ they say, ‘may be of God, and not from us.’
