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exceeding en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/
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Etymology

From exceed + -ing.

Meanings

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

Forms

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more exceeding Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most exceeding Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

exceedingness

Translations (3)

eo tre ega (extreme) · es excedente (extreme) · es excediente (extreme)

exceeding en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/
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Etymology

From exceed + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Exceedingly.
    • 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 1611, First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy (AV):
    • […] a mighty huge hole or gulf all round, in manner of a hollow globe cut through the midst, exceeding deep and horrible to see to, full of much darkness, […] 1905, The Myths of Plato, page 442:
    • 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[…]. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 7, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

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more exceeding Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most exceeding Degree=Sup lexicographic

exceeding en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/
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Etymology

From exceed + -ing.

Meanings

  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[…] 1812, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, page 198:

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exceedings Number=Plur lexicographic

exceeding en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/
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Etymology

From exceed + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of exceed
    form of exceed