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Transcend vs Perfection - What's the difference?

transcend | perfection |

As verbs the difference between transcend and perfection

is that transcend is to pass beyond the limits of something while perfection is (obsolete|transitive) to perfect.

As a noun perfection is

the quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection' in an art, in a science, or in a system; '''perfection''' in form or degree; fruits in ' perfection .

transcend

English

Verb

(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)

    Derived terms

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

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    perfection

    English

    (wikipedia perfection)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection' in an art, in a science, or in a system; '''perfection''' in form or degree; fruits in ' perfection .
  • A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
    • What tongue can her perfections tell? -
  • The highest degree of excellence.
    • to imitate a model to perfection

    Quotations

    * 1784 , William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. , PREFACE
    THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection ; and di?tingui?h it from others?;?which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.

    Synonyms

    * faultlessness * infallibility

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To perfect.
    • (Foote)
  • * (William Woty)
    • Sooner I'd kneel unto the modern nine / Alike perfectioned , though a virgin's name / They cannot boast
    (Webster 1913)

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