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Example sentences for "transcendent"

Lexicographically close words:
transcend; transcendant; transcended; transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; transcendentalism; transcendentalist; transcendentalists; transcendentally
  1. Through the transcendent sweetness and beauty of the face, there is a something shining out, that haunts me.

  2. It seems to me, too, that the indiscriminate and determined raptures in which some critics indulge, is incompatible with the true appreciation of the really great and transcendent works.

  3. Splendor, thus transmitted, thus sustained, and thus imperishable, argues a transcendent in the basis of radical power.

  4. Both were aware of the transcendent quality of the Grecian literature; but that splendor did not depress their hopes of raising their own to something of the same level.

  5. For the unaided intellect of man seems not to have had stamina to carry, as it were, the weight of the transcendent idea of one God, of God infinite in might, in wisdom, and in love.

  6. And this same idea is perhaps the groundwork of the alternative destinies of Achilles, either a long life without great glory, or transcendent glory and a short career[744].

  7. Sidenote: The Rhemish Bible} Such are his touching words; and certainly one has only to compare this version of ours with the Rhemish, and the transcendent excellence of our own reveals itself at once.

  8. Thus Virgil’s transcendent excellence fixed the character of the hexameter in subsequent poetry, and took away the chances, if not of improvement, at least of variety.

  9. Nothing can act beyond its own nature; when then we are called to what is supernatural, though those extraordinary aids from Heaven are given us, with which obedience becomes possible, yet even with them it is of transcendent difficulty.

  10. He descends from a position of transcendent dignity to the obscurity of private life.

  11. Though unpopular and maligned at this time in England for his immoralities and haughty disdain, he was still the greatest poet of his age, a peer, and a man of transcendent genius of whom any country would be proud.

  12. This unfortunate passion can be kept down only by the overpowering dominancy of transcendent ability, which everybody must concede, when envy is turned into admiration,--as in the case of Napoleon.

  13. The great personal defect of Thiers was vanity; that of Guizot was austerity: but both were men of transcendent ability and unimpeached patriotism.

  14. The question then arises, whether his marvellous gifts and transcendent opportunities were directed to the good of his country and the cause of civilization.

  15. May it bring to every Camp Fire in America, and to boys as well, the romance of the transcendent achievement, beside which all dressing of fiction pales!

  16. His numerous and remarkable works stamp him as one of the world's transcendent intellects.

  17. Like all the rest, he has failed in effecting what the constitution of the human mind renders impossible, and in this very failure, warned every succeeding age of the vanity of the attempt which his transcendent genius was unable to effect.

  18. And besides, the Movement offered another attraction: it imputed an extraordinary, transcendent merit to the profession which Manning himself pursued.

  19. Because in our brief pilgrimage we are not permitted to witness the transcendent glory, it is none the less certain.

  20. In view of this transcendent wrong, it is a disparagement of International Law to say that there is no remedy.

  21. But the case is strengthened, when it is considered that the war was for the life of the Republic, so that throughout all time, so long as the Republic endures, all who enjoy its transcendent citizenship will share the benefits.

  22. For the noble character and transcendent intellect of Mr. J.

  23. She was, indeed, very fond of society, and did not look for transcendent talent in those with whom she associated, although no one appreciated it more when she found it.

  24. Self-sacrifice is never in vain, and with the clearness of prophecy they foresaw that out of their trials should come a transcendent Future.

  25. For seventy years, then, we have been in possession of this transcendent light without applying it to the illumination of our streets and houses.

  26. This was an expansion of transcendent import; but Bruno came closer than this to our present line of thought.

  27. The poetic alchemist may turn a sword into pure gold: the playwright will concern himself with the due usage of the weapon as we know it, and attribute to it no transcendent value, no miraculous properties.

  28. The poem is the narrative of his transcendent aspirations, and more or less futile accomplishment.

  29. As neither its subject, nor its extraordinariness as a feat, nor its method, will withstand a searching examination, we must endeavour to discern if transcendent poetic merit be discoverable in the treatment.

  30. We gathered from his statements that unless a man be deeply versed in them all, he can never attain to a proper understanding of this transcendent and exalted theme.

  31. They are sent forth through the transcendent power of the Ancient of Days, and are raised up by the exalted will of God, the most mighty King.

  32. Reflect: Who in this world is able to manifest such transcendent power, such pervading influence?

  33. While He re-created in His personal character our lost manhood, by His death and resurrection He has gained for that ideal a transcendent power that seizes upon men and regenerates and transforms them.

  34. The apostle was not unaware of the vast influence he now possessed, and that must accrue to him in the future from the transcendent interest of the doctrines committed to his charge.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transcendent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    above; absolute; abstract; ahead; amorphous; ascendant; better; blind; capping; choice; chosen; cloudy; consummate; dark; dim; distinguished; divine; dominant; eminent; excellent; fierce; finer; foggy; fuzzy; godlike; godly; great; greater; hazy; heavenly; higher; hypothetical; ideal; incarnate; incomparable; indeterminate; indistinct; ineffable; marked; masterful; mediatory; metaphysical; misty; muddy; murky; nebulous; obscure; only; opaque; outstanding; over; preeminent; propitiatory; rare; redemptive; rivaling; shadowy; shapeless; splendid; sublime; superhuman; superior; supernatural; supreme; surpassing; theoretical; topping; towering; transcendent; transcendental; transcending; ultimate; unclear; upper; vague