Read full poem →Sir William Bassett, — Exceeding much
/ in debt, and has engaged to vote as his
Dictionary Entry
To be larger, greater than (something).
In a Sentence
“The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “exceeding”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →that shews an intimacy with that father of poetry ^ in whom it occurs ex-
tremely often ^ Milton has an exceeding fine one in the description of
his Lazar-House.
Read full poem →He speaks with Dove-voice of exceeding love,
And she with love-voice of an answering Dove.
Read full poem →Was but a dream; and now I wake
Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old,
For a dream's sake.
Read full poem →By day she woos me, soft, exceeding fair:
But all night as the moon so changeth she;
Read full poem →By day she wooes me, soft, exceeding fair:
But all night as the moon so changeth she;
Read full poem →Angels, Archangels he outstripped,
Exultant in exceeding might,
And trod the skirts of Cherubim.
Read full poem →Ask from Love's bounty, ah, much more than bliss!
Is't the sequester'd and exceeding sweet
Of dear Desire electing his defeat?
Read full poem →For piteous passion keen at having found,
After exceeding ill, a little good;
A little good
Read full poem →And if I faithfully proclaim
Of these the exceeding worthiness,
Surely the sweetest wreath of Fame