> Transcendence, improvement, correction, betterment, digestion ---
> anything but "sublation!"
It's a perfectly fine word, just overused in certain contexts. An individual word is never ugly, only sentences are ugly.
"Transition", for example, is a perfectly fine word. But "The transition offense of the Portland Trailblazers" is a phrase which fills me with the unspeakable dread of an impending sub-.500 season. (Don't ask how I reconcile my California residency with my Portland sympathies. I blame The Dialectic.)
-- DRR