"transcendence" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when you want to refer to the act of surpassing or rising above something. For example, "Her courage was an example of transcendence in the face of adversity."
Psychologically, freedom from the world is the precondition for the consciousness of a world-transcendent God, or the consciousness of transcendence (ST, p. 105).
Although churches promote Christmas as a time of spiritual transcendence and commerce as an opportunity for domestic hedonism, it can be three days of dark and painful farce for many people.
Most likely to: Induce feelings of quasi-religious transcendence.
The approach was to use keyboards, effects and vocals to create everything from moments of serene transcendence worthy of a BBC2 arts show to tracks such as Nil Admirari, which sounds roughly like kid606 blowtorching his way through Einstürzende Neubauten's back catalogue.
Do ladders signify transcendence or the impossibility of climbing past a fixed point?
The acquisition of luxury is both an attempt at transcendence and an act of appropriation, like the picking of the apple in the garden of Eden.
"Braids and braids and bloody braids of meaning", says Freyn, and indeed the knotty cerebration expressed there does in the end overshadow the Conradian transcendence to which this clever and, yes, interesting novel aspires.
"While a bank cannot make people literally immortal, it can...create legacies for its clients that satisfy their need for transcendence," according to the author, Maximilian Martin, now a philanthropy adviser at UBS.Certainly, people tend to become more generous as they grow richer, both in life and in death.
After cantering through swindles, murders, bombs and the murky intrigues of Kremlin politics, the reader suddenly, on page 201, reaches an interesting historical-philosophical digression, on the lack of ethical transcendence in Russian intellectual history.
So if we have intimations of divinity and transcendence, how shall we express them?
Her early religious belief seems to have been driven by a combination of puzzlement and willpower, rather than any feeling of transcendence.
