surpassing

English

Verb

surpassing

1. present participle of surpass

Adjective

surpassing (comparative more surpassing, superlative most surpassing)

1. Becoming superior to others; becoming excellent.

Translations

superior to others

• Latin: superans
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Noun

surpassing (plural surpassings)

1. 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.