The notion of being is so universal that it transcends all actual and conceivable determinate modes of being: it embraces infinite being and all modes of finite being.
He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect--its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience.
It realises to us in a way which nothing else can, the littleness of human intelligence in the face of that which transcends human intelligence.
Notoriously the epic infinitely transcends in scale, breadth of conception, and grandeur of style any brief popular lays of which we have knowledge.
In contrast with his natural clemency, the wrath of Achilles for Patroclus's sake is all the more monstrous; he far transcends the customary ferocities of dishonour to the dead.
But the other painters, the ones with the "truer light of God" in them, reach the heaven above and take their place there although what they see transcends the power of their art to tell.
We do not think Real Time--but we live it because life transcends intellect.
And these dictionary words are indispensable to a writer, not only in the proportion by which he transcends other writers as to extent and as to subtlety of thinking, but also as to elevation and sublimity.
He had, to begin with, a French inaptitude for apprehending poetry at all: any poetry, that is, which transcends manners and the interests of social life.
What is he in need of in the Kingdom which transcends the life and limitation of this mortal sphere?
The animal would agree with the materialist in denying the existence of that which transcends the senses.
Although it transcends our realization, its lights, bestowals, traces and virtues have become manifest in the realities of the prophets, even as the sun becomes resplendent in various mirrors.
Thou art he that transcends all attributes and is a state of pure existence which is incapable of being described with the aid of any adjective that language can yield.
Thou art he who transcends the senses and shines by himself.
That man transcends every kind of calamity from whose well or tank every one draws water without restraint during the summer season.
When afflicted with calamity, he readily transcends it.
Thou art the soul or nature that transcends the three universal attributes (of Sattwa, Rajas, and Tamas).
What is that sacrifice which transcends the sacrifices of this world?
Thou art he thattranscends the usages of the mendicant order.
Thou art the senses, thou art that which transcends Prakriti, thou art immutable.
Money is not essential, but this wide affinity is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste, and makes itself felt by men of all classes.
True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.
It transcends in value all those 'expediencies,' and is something to live for, whether expedient or inexpedient.
Thus he transcends the national limit, and begins to obtain an universal culture.
Menelaus in his voyage transcendsthe Greek world of the Trojan epoch, and brings back the story thereof to his country.
These minute creatures are prolific to a degree that transcends all calculation; and they exist, either in the egg or maturely developed, in inconceivable numbers.
As respects the manner in which all physical effects are produced by the direct action of the Deity, we are not bound to offer any explanation, as the subject confessedly transcends the limit of the human faculties.
Plain men can give a straightforward account of what they have seen or learned from eye-witnesses; but it transcends the genius of any man to invent such narratives of such a character.
Its brightness far transcendsand pales that of all other luminaries, and would that of millions of stars as bright as Sirius, or even hundreds of thousands of full moons.
It deals with masses, distances, and velocities, which in their immensity belong specially to itself alone, and of which the mere conception transcends the utmost stretch of our finite faculties.
That which transcends the tongue, and can perceive taste.
That which transcends the nose, and has the power of smelling.
That whichtranscends the skin, on which the skin depends, and which extends from head to foot, and has the power of perceiving heat and cold.
That which transcends the ocular orb, on which the orb depends, which is situated to the front of the black iris and has the power of cognising forms.
That which transcends speech, in which speech resides, and which is located in eight different centres* and has the power of speech.
How can they, with their physical eyes, hope to see that which transcends that sight?
That which transcends the hands, on which the palms depend, and which has the power of giving and taking.
That channel of knowledge which transcends the [physical] ear, is limited by the auricular orifice, on which the akas depends, and which is capable of taking cognisance of sound.
The very notion of a miracle is metaphysical; it implies a conception of the universe as a whole which transcends the limits of observation.
The subject is provincial, but the historian transcends all provincialism.
Facts about the animal are fascinating; the effect he has had on the minds of human beings associated with him transcends naturalistic facts.
The world-eject thus becomes invested with a psychical value as greatly transcending in magnitude that of the human mind, as the material frame of the universetranscends in its magnitude the material frame of the human body.
I lit off my perch in a burst of excitement, and exclaimed: "This transcends everything!
Apart from the words and example of the Founder of Christianity, few men have ever lived who were more alive to existing social distinctions, and also to the splendour of that scheme which transcends them all, than St Paul.
It has tried, that is, to get below the varieties of race or family or occupation, and create a unity which, because it transcends them all, may hope to last.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transcends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
