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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Latin
Origin: transcendere 'to climb across, transcend', from scandere 'to climb'

transcend

 verb
     
tran‧scend [transitive]
formal to go beyond the usual limits of something:
The desire for peace transcended political differences.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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