Preeminence vs Transcend - What's the difference?
preeminence | transcend |
The status of being preeminent, dominant or ascendant.
High importance; superiority.
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to pass beyond the limits of something.
* Francis Bacon
to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To climb; to mount.
As a noun preeminence
is preeminence.As a verb transcend is
to pass beyond the limits of something.preeminence
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Alternative forms
* pre-eminence * preëminenceNoun
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transcend
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Verb
(en verb)- such popes as shall transcend their limits
- How much her worth transcended all her kind.
- lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
- (Howell)