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What does transcendence mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) The act of surpassing usual limits.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
  3. (uncountable) The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
  4. Superior excellence; supereminence.
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He interprets the moment of suicidal hesitation as a Keatsian yearning for transcendence through death.
But however familiar nature is, men still feel its transcendent power, along with a corresponding intimation of transcendence in themselves.
As for many romantic poets, love is the agent for the fusion of souls, spiritual transcendence, and metaphysical existence.
Of course, as you know, I've never really seen the transcendence in post-punk.
This is the mythos of tragedy, combined with a glorious transcendence of conflict.
Indeed, he draws determinate conclusions only about the people who respond to the sense of transcendence or about the characters in their novels.

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