Meanings
comparative more supertranscendent · superlative most supertranscendent · alternative super-transcendent
- rareWholly transcendent; transcendent without comparison.
We have further, in Mr. Harrison's pamphlet, a supertranscendent instance of procreation and fecundity; fecundity and procreation.
1782, William Stevenson, Edward Harrison (M.D.), A Reply to a Letter Addressed to Dr. S. by E. Harrison, pages 28–292 more examples
Thought and being are not identical, except in a supertranscendent Thinker, whose thought, because of his absolute simplicity, is identified with his being. And, again, though this Thinker is absolute, yet, on account of his utter perfection of simplicity, it is impossible that his thought, as identified with his being, should become manifold , and so externalise in the world of sense.
1908, Alfred Bowyer Sharpe, Francis Aveling, The Spectrum of Truth, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, page 36Second, this wisdom may be said nulliform because its object is supertranscendent and therefore unable to be grasped — that is, seen as a specific form — by the created intellect. We have encountered this transcendence before, in other accounts of the highest wisdom.
2005, Gregory LaNave, Through Holiness to Wisdom: The Nature of Theology According to St. Bonaventure, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, →ISBN, page 183
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