surpassing
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surpassing
verb
- present participle and gerund of surpass
adjective more surpassing · most surpassing
- Becoming superior to others; becoming excellent; exceptional; exceeding. "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
noun surpassings
- The act or process by which something is surpassed; a bettering. 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.
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Closest in meaning: exceeding, superior, extraordinary, exceptional, prodigious, transcendent, olympian, overcoming, outstripping, overtaking, topping, pushing, leapfrogging, beating, bypassing, leaping
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