transcendent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRANSCEND'ENT, adjective [Latin transcendens.] Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as transcendent worth; transcendent valor. Cloth'd with transcendent brightness.
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