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Proceeding vs Exceeding - What's the difference?

proceeding | exceeding |

As verbs the difference between proceeding and exceeding

is that proceeding is while exceeding is .

As nouns the difference between proceeding and exceeding

is that proceeding is the act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction while exceeding is (archaic) the situation of being in excess.

As an adjective exceeding is

(archaic) prodigious.

As an adverb exceeding is

(archaic) exceedingly.

proceeding

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
  • The collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference
  • Progress or movement from one thing to another.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding .}}
  • A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.
  • * (Macaulay)
  • The proceedings of the high commission.
  • Plural'', see ''proceedings .
  • Synonyms

    * procedure * measure * step

    See also

    * transaction. (Webster 1913)

    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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