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surpassing

adjective C1
  1. Becoming superior to others; becoming excellent; exceptional; exceeding.
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Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 6 · B2
“Let Memphis cease to boast the barbarous miracles of her pyramids, and the wonders of Babylon be talked of no more among us; all must bow to the superiority of the gigantic labor of the Cæsars, and the many voices of Fame spread far and wide the surpassing merits of this incomparable monument.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 351 · C1

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