[-ING1.] The action of the verb SURMOUNT; also, something that surmounts.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 581/24. Excessus, excesse, passynge oute, or surmountynge.
1812. Examiner, 5 Oct., 635/1. On the entablature is an unadorned parapet, or surmounting of the front.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. viii. 60. The steady surmounting of difficulties.
