exceeding

verb

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

adj

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

adv

1. (archaic)Exceedingly.

   “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[…].”

   “1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.”

   “[…] 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, […]”

noun

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[…]”