transcendency

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English

Etymology

From transcend +‎ -ency.

Noun

transcendency (countable and uncountable, plural transcendencies)

  1. transcendence
  2. (obsolete) elevation above the truth; exaggeration
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 22:
      This would haue better done in Poeſy; where Tranſcendencies are more allowed.