transcension
English
Etymology
See transcend.
Noun
transcension (plural transcensions)
- (obsolete) The act of transcending, or surpassing.
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
- Many a shady hill,
And many an echoing valley; many a field
Pleasant and wishful did his passage yield
Their safe transcension.
- Many a shady hill,
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
- (obsolete) The act of passing over something.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for transcension in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)