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transcension

transcension noun: the act of transcending, surpassing, or passing over something. Transcendence.

Noun

transcension (plural transcensions)

  1. (obsolete) The act of transcending, surpassing, or passing over something. Transcendence
    • Many a shady hill,
      And many an echoing valley; many a field
      Pleasant and wishful did his passage yield
      Their safe transcension.c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624

Forms of transcension

pluraltranscensions

Origin of transcension

See transcend.

Questions about transcension

What does transcension mean?
Transcension means the act of transcending, surpassing, or passing over something. Transcendence.
What part of speech is transcension?
Transcension is a noun.
What is the plural of transcension?
The plural of transcension is transcensions.

Words near transcension in the dictionary

  1. transcendible
  2. transcending
  3. transcendingly
  4. transcendingness
  5. transcends
  6. transcension
  7. transcensions
  8. transcephalic
  9. transception
  10. transceptions
  11. transceptor

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