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Advancing vs Exceeding - What's the difference?

advancing | exceeding |

As verbs the difference between advancing and exceeding

is that advancing is while exceeding is .

As nouns the difference between advancing and exceeding

is that advancing is the act of proceeding forward; an advance while exceeding is (archaic) the situation of being in excess.

As an adjective exceeding is

(archaic) prodigious.

As an adverb exceeding is

(archaic) exceedingly.

advancing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of proceeding forward; an advance.
  • * 1839 , Henry Blunt, A practical exposition of the epistles to the Seven Churches (page 52)

    • exceeding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) prodigious
  • (archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
  • (archaic) extreme

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) Exceedingly.
  • *, 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:

    • Usage notes

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

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) 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

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