Noah Webster
Exceeding
EXCEE'DING, participle present tense 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. adverb 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. Genesis 15:1.
EXCEE'DING, noun Excess; superfluity.