Exceeding vs False - What's the difference?
exceeding | false |
(archaic) prodigious
(archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
(archaic) extreme
(archaic) Exceedingly.
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* 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:
(archaic) The situation of being in excess.
* 1812 , Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command , page 198:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between exceeding and false
is that exceeding is (archaic) prodigious while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb exceeding
is .As an adverb exceeding
is (archaic) exceedingly.As a noun exceeding
is (archaic) the situation of being in excess.exceeding
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Adverb
(en adverb)- 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.
Usage notes
* The adverbial usage was very common in the 17th and 18th centuries, but is now considered archaic.Noun
(en noun)- 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
References
*false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}