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Exceeding   /ɪksˈidɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Exceed  v. t.  (past & past part. exceeded; pres. part. exceeding)  To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. "Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days." "Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair."
Synonyms: To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop.


Exceed  v. i.  
1.
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure. "In our reverence to whom, we can not possibly exceed." "Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed."
2.
To be more or greater; to be paramount.


adjective
Exceeding  adj.  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace."


adverb
Exceeding  adv.  In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. (Archaic. It is not joined to verbs.) "The voice exceeding loud." "His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow." "The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea."





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"Exceeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... on in spite of prayer or pleading, Through storm and peril; but that life might gain A Peace through strife all other peace exceeding, Fresh joy from sorrow, and ...
— Legends and Lyrics: Second Series • Adelaide Anne Procter
... this awful record for its proper time and place. Let us now do that which Moses does in the present chapter, who wants us to consider the exceeding splendor of this primeval age of the world. Adam lived beyond the age of his grandson Enoch, and died but a short time before Noah was born. A hundred and twenty years only intervened between the death of Adam ...
— Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II - Luther on Sin and the Flood • Martin Luther
... single paragraph of exposition not exceeding two or three hundred words, it is a very safe rule for a beginner always to have the theme in the last sentence; or if he has stated the theme in the opening, to have a restatement of it in different form, fuller and more explicit usually, sometimes a shorter ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
... Bavarians down the stairs and out of the door into the Marienplatz. Even behind all those wrappings August felt the icy bite of the intense cold of the outer air at dawn of a winter's day in Munich. The men moved the stove with exceeding gentleness and care, so that he had often been far more roughly shaken in his big brothers' arms than he was in his journey now; and though both hunger and thirst made themselves felt, being foes that will ...
— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... pines, and ever between the tall trunks came the glare of the poppies that shone from the garden valley. For a whole day they travelled through the pines. That night a cold wind came up the garden valley crying against the poppies. Low in his Temple, with a song of exceeding grief, Zornadhu in the morning made a dirge for the passing of poppies, because in the night time there had fallen petals that might not return or ever come again into the garden valley. Outside the Temple on the path of ocean shells the heralds ...
— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]


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