All 3 Uses of
transcendent
in
Bleak House
- Here, among his many boxes labelled with transcendent names, lives Mr. Tulkinghorn, when not speechlessly at home in country-houses where the great ones of the earth are bored to death.†
Chpt 10-12
- Whatever can have induced that transcendent woman to marry that effigy and figure-head of a baronet is one of the most impenetrable mysteries that ever baffled human inquiry.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- I would rather restore to poor Rick his proper nature than be endowed with all the money that dead suitors, broken, heart and soul, upon the wheel of Chancery, have left unclaimed with the Accountant-General—and that's money enough, my dear, to be cast into a pyramid, in memory of Chancery's transcendent wickedness."†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(transcendent) beyond the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
or:
surpassing usual limits of excellence