0 past simple and past participle of transcend
1 to go further, rise above, or be more important or better than something, especially a limit:
The opponents of the project emphasized that their campaign was not 'political', namely, that the issue they promoted transcended party politics.
But does beauty reside in the complex shadowing of poetry, or is it in the music's celebration of order transcended?
This coalescence transcended national boundaries and set itself against the social costs of colonial rule.
Industrialization, poverty, and unemployment gave rise to property, as opposed to people-related, offences on a scale that transcended ethnic boundaries and necessitated new policing methods.
This status, which transcended denominational and religious divides, was based on a relatively small number of philosophical and theological essays.
Some were proud of how they had transcended the difficulties of childhood through a happy marriage, through work endeavours and other contributions.
First, its interpretation of rural music transcended the traditional approach to this genre through its re-workings of such music.
Just as interactions among the people of the basin area have always constituted complex patterns that transcended national boundaries, so has the pattern of conflict.
