exceed ingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/
• 韻: -iːdɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: ex‧ceed‧ing

動詞

exceeding

1. present participle of exceed

形容詞

exceeding (comparative more exceeding, superlative most exceeding)

1. (archaic) prodigious
2. (archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
3. (archaic) extreme

副詞

exceeding (comparative more exceeding, superlative most exceeding)

1. (archaic) Exceedingly.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, printed at London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:
     , II.7:

     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 […].

   • 1905, The Myths of Plato, page 442:

     […] 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, […]

使用する際の注意点

• The adverbial usage was very common in the 17th and 18th centuries, but is now considered archaic.

名詞

exceeding (複数形 exceedings)

1. The situation of being in excess.
   • 1812, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, page 198:

     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 […]

参照

• “exceeding” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.