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Exceeding vs Protruding - What's the difference?

exceeding | protruding |

As verbs the difference between exceeding and protruding

is that exceeding is present participle of lang=en while protruding is present participle of protrude.

As an adjective exceeding

is prodigious.

As an adverb exceeding

is exceedingly.

As a noun exceeding

is the situation of being in excess.

exceeding

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Verb

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  • 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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