transcendency

noun — 2 senses

transcendency

noun

Etymology From transcend + -ency.

1

transcendence

2

Obsolete elevation above the truth; exaggeration

  • This would haue better done in Poeſy; where Tranſcendencies are more allowed.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 22:

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