transcendency

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noun a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
noun the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits

From transcend + -ency.

The poet lies a little, perhaps, in a very sane suspicion of his own transcendencies. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
It was her first, because she was the mother of a boy so well behaved that he had become a proverb of transcendency. — Penrod, Booth Tarkington
This would have done better in poesy, where transcendencies are more allowed; and the poets indeed have been busy with it; for it is in effect the thing which is figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets, which seemeth not to be without mystery;[112] nay, and to have some approach to the state of a Christian; "that Hercules, when he went to unbind Prometheus (by whom human nature is represented), sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher," lively describing Christian resolution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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