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Transcendently

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tran·scen·dent  (trn-sndnt)
adj.
1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor" National Review.
3. Philosophy
a. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
b. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.
tran·scendence, tran·scenden·cy n.
tran·scendent·ly adv.
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A vision--a transcendently seductive vision of a Mexican girl arose before her.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
The inspiration-- I can call it by no other name--was that I felt how voluntarily, how transcendently, I MIGHT.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
If her countenance and hair had rather a floury appearance, as though from living in some transcendently genteel Mill, it was rather because she was a chalky creation altogether, than because she mended her complexion with violet powder, or had turned grey.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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