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US
/tɹænˈsɛnd/
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[ UK /tɹænsˈɛnd/ ]
[ UK /tɹænsˈɛnd/ ]
VERB
-
be greater in scope or size than some standard
Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds -
be superior or better than some standard
She exceeded our expectations
She topped her performance of last year
How To Use transcend In A Sentence
- The result of this inversion is for Chayes a new transcendentalism, one in which "the man raises himself to a level above both the human and the mundane natural" (Shelley 624). Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
- This support of the fabrication of the transcendent in its different modes, all of which, according to Diotima, come under the same propaedeutic: love of beauty.
- La transcendance de l'égo: esquisse d'une description phénoménologique. Jean-Paul Sartre - Bibliography
- Enough to raise themselves to the same level of transcendence.
- We honor Ralph Waldo Emerson, but where does Transcendentalism figure in anybody's life today?
- Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots. Frieze art fair 2010 – review
- The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide
- Adults adopt an essentially Kantian moral perspective that seeks to transcend and judge all conventional moralities.
- The material world is manifest out of singular consciousness, nondual suchness, it evolves ... and then transcends again. Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon
- The violent enforcement of orthodoxy in Christian history is the necessary and logical consequence of seeing an institution as the agent and protector of transcendent truth.