Transcend vs Transfigure - What's the difference?
transcend | transfigure |
to pass beyond the limits of something.
* Francis Bacon
to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To climb; to mount.
To transform the outward appearance of something; to convert into a different form, state or substance.
To glorify or exalt something or someone.
As verbs the difference between transcend and transfigure
is that transcend is to pass beyond the limits of something while transfigure is to transform the outward appearance of something; to convert into a different form, state or substance.transcend
English
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)