Definition of "transcending" []

• Present participle of transcend. (verb)

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• "The idea is intriguing, but I can't see even a modern Frankenstein transcending its roots any more than last weekend's "Wolfman" did."
• "Great works of art no matter where they come from, or who made them, are those that succeed in transcending the commonplace or the quotidian to reveal fundamental truths about life."
• "Note that the phrase transcending Being assigns no character, makes no assertion, allots no name, carries only the denial of particular being; and in this there is no attempt to circumscribe it: to seek to throw a line about that illimitable Nature would be folly, and anyone thinking to do so cuts himself off from any slightest and most momentary approach to its least vestige."