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surpassings

surpassings is the plural of surpassing.

Meaning of surpassing

Noun

surpassing (plural surpassings)

  1. 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.2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between, page 347

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Questions about surpassings

What is surpassings the plural of?
Surpassings is the plural of surpassing.

Words near surpassings in the dictionary

  1. surpassest
  2. surpasseth
  3. surpassing
  4. surpassingly
  5. surpassingness
  6. surpassings
  7. surpassive
  8. surpay
  9. surpays
  10. surpeti
  11. surpetis

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