Outweigh vs Transcend - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between outweigh and transcend

is that outweigh is to exceed in weight or mass while transcend is to pass beyond the limits of something.

(en verb)

To exceed in weight or mass.

To exceed in importance or value.

The advantage was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.

(en verb)

to pass beyond the limits of something.

* Francis Bacon

such popes as shall transcend their limits

to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.

* Dryden

How much her worth transcended all her kind.

(obsolete) To climb; to mount.

lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds

(Howell)

* transcendence * transcendency * transcendent * transcendental * transcendentalism * transcendentalist * transcendentally * transcending

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