Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-CEED'ING
EX-CEED'ING, ppr.
- Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing.
- 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.
- 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.
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