• Exceeding

    Pronunciation

    Origin

    From exceed + -ing.

    Verb

    exceeding
    1. Present participle of exceed

    Full definition of exceeding

    Adjective

    exceeding

    1. (archaic) prodigious
    2. (archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
    3. (archaic) extreme

    Adverb

    exceeding

    1. (archaic) Exceedingly.
      • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.7: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 ....

    Usage notes

    The adverbial usage was very common in the 17th and 18th centuries, but is now considered archaic.

    Noun

    exceeding

    (plural exceedings)
    1. (archaic) The situation of being in excess.
      • 1812, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command (page 198)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...
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