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Exceeding

//ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ// adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    prodigious archaic
  2. 2
    exceptional, extraordinary archaic
  3. 3
    extreme archaic
Adjective
  1. 1
    far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Exceedingly. archaic

    "Those which write the life of Augustus Cæsar, note this in his military discipline, that he was exceeding liberall and lavish in his gifts to such as were of any desert[…]."

Noun
  1. 1
    The situation of being in excess.

    "I have to say it appears to me in the first place, that the exceedings of expenditure beyond estimate appearing upon that account, do not give to the Grand Canal company the slightest legal right to any public money[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of exceed form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From exceed + -ing.

Etymology 2

From exceed + -ing.

Etymology 3

From exceed + -ing.

Etymology 4

From exceed + -ing.

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