surpassingness

Greek polity had never so much to do with the surpassingness of Hellenic art as the one thing the Hellenes had nothing whatever to do with -- the extraordinary beauty of the land in which they lived.

Art Influence in the West 1915

The effect of the luckless comparison was to produce an image of surpassingness in the features of Clara that gave him the final, or mace-blow.

The Egoist George Meredith 1868

The effect of the luckless comparison was to produce an image of surpassingness in the features of Clara that gave him the final, or mace-blow.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

+to be+ similarly +loss+, deprivation, +because of the surpassingness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord+, because of the immeasurable betterness of a spirit-sight of what HE is, in Himself, and as my own;

Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians 1880

Not for abstract reasons, but "because of the surpassingness of the knowledge of Christ

Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians 1880