Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-CEED'ING, ppr.

1. Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing.
2. adj. Great in extent, quantity or duration; very extensive. Cities were built an exceeding space of time before the Flood. [This sense is unusual.] Ralegh.
3. adv. In a very great degree; unususlly; as, exceeding rich. The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. Ralegh. I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Gen. xv.