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# exceeding

«exceeding» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **very, extremely** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

very, extremely

### part of speech

adjective or adverb

### meaning for a pupil

very great or to a great degree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/exceeding/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today exceeding means going over a limit; here it means very or extremely, as in 'exceeding grievous'.

### examples

- And the LORD said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous. (Torah GEN.18.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/exceeding/#x1)
- "The villain, though exceeding clever, Shall prosper not by his villainy. (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/exceeding/#x2)
- And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. (Torah GEN.17.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/exceeding/#x3)

### primary record

exceeding

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 18 (Torah 8, tales 10, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.0 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.419/)
- [And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.217/)
- [The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.300/)
- [And he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.335/)
- [And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many; the weight of the brass could not be found out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.277/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «exceeding» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/exceeding/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.