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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXCEE'DING, ppr. Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing.
1. Great in extent, quantity or duration; very extensive.
Cities were built an exceeding space of time before the flood. [This sense is unusual.]
2. adv. In a very great degree; unusually; as exceeding rich.
The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.
I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Genesis 15.
EXCEE'DING, n. Excess; superfluity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century exceptional in amount, quality, or degree

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. --adj. 1 surpassing in amount or degree. 2 pre-eminent. --adv. archaic = EXCEEDINGLY 2.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Exceeding Ex*ceed"ing, adv. In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. [Archaic. It is not joined to verbs.] ``The voice exceeding loud.'' --Keble. His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow. --Mark ix. 3. The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. --Sir W. Raleigh.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Exceed Ex*ceed", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exceeding.] [L. excedere, excessum, to go away or beyond; ex out + cedere to go, to pass: cf. F. exc['e]der. See Cede.] 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. --Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. --Pope. Syn: To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Exceeding Ex*ceed"ing, a. More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. ``The exceeding riches of his grace.'' --Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.