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transcends

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tran⋅scend

  [tran-send]
Use transcends in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
2. to outdo or exceed in excellence, elevation, extent, degree, etc.; surpass; excel.
3. Theology. (of the Deity) to be above and independent of (the universe, time, etc.).
–verb (used without object)
4. to be transcendent or superior; excel: His competitiveness made him want to transcend.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < L trānscendere to surmount, equiv to trāns- trans- + -scendere, comb. form of scandere to climb

Related forms:
tran⋅scend⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
2. outstrip.
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tran·scend   (trān-sěnd')   
v.   tran·scend·ed, tran·scend·ing, tran·scends

v.   tr.

  1. To pass beyond the limits of: emotions that transcend understanding.

  2. To be greater than, as in intensity or power; surpass: love that transcends infatuation. See Synonyms at excel.

  3. To exist above and independent of (material experience or the universe): "One never can see the thing in itself, because the mind does not transcend phenomena" (Hilaire Belloc).

v.   intr.
To be transcendent; excel.

[Middle English transcenden, from Old French transcendre, from Latin trānscendere : trāns-, trans- + scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

transcend 
c.1340, from L. transcendere "climb over or beyond, surmount," from trans- "beyond" + scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). Transcendentalism first recorded 1803, in reference to the philosophy of Kant; applied 1842 to the religio-philosophical views of Emerson and similar New England thinkers. Transcendental meditation is recorded from 1966.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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