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English
Verb
surpassing
- present participle and gerund of surpass
Adjective
surpassing (comparative more surpassing, superlative most surpassing)
- Becoming superior to others; becoming excellent; exceptional; exceeding.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Past”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 87:"Yet once again," exclaimed he, passionately, "let me gaze on that beautiful and beloved face! let me see if sorrow has cast a shadow on its surpassing loveliness! I will not let her know how near I am, and how wretched! No, in secret and in silence will I look upon her once more; and then, farewell for ever!"
Translations
Noun
surpassing (plural surpassings)
- The act or process by which something is surpassed; a bettering.
2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between, page 347:In both of these surpassings, the human being, in being freed, is freed both to be itself and to be beyond itself; but the second orients us more fully towards being free beyond self-determination.