Both Uses of
transcendent
in
Middlemarch
- She blushed and looked at him as the garden flowers look at us when we walk forth happily among them in the transcendent evening light: is there not a soul beyond utterance, half nymph, half child, in those delicate petals which glow and breathe about the centres of deep color?†
Chpt 4 *
- For effective magic is transcendent nature; and who shall measure the subtlety of those touches which convey the quality of soul as well as body, and make a man's passion for one woman differ from his passion for another as joy in the morning light over valley and river and white mountain-top differs from joy among Chinese lanterns and glass panels?†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(transcendent) beyond the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
or:
surpassing usual limits of excellence