Exceeding

Exceeding - (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. Gen 15.

EXCEE'DING, n. Excess; superfluity.