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beyond the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
or:
surpassing usual limits of excellence
or:
surpassing usual limits of excellence
- This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.p. 23.4
transcendent = beyond the ordinary range of human experience
There are no more uses of "transcendent" in The Great Gatsby.
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