Definition of "exceeding"

exceeding

/ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of exceed
adjective
comparative more exceeding, superlative most exceeding
1. (archaic) prodigious
2. (archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
3. (archaic) extreme
adverb
comparative more exceeding, superlative most exceeding
1. (archaic) Exceedingly.
  Quotations
  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 […].
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 7, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
  […] 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, […]
  1905, The Myths of Plato, page 442
noun
plural exceedings
1. The situation of being in excess.
  Quotations
  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 […]
  1812, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, page 198