Succeeding vs Exceeding - What's the difference?
succeeding | exceeding |
Following, next in order.
*
*: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.
success
* 1722 , Nicholas Ling, ?John Bodenham, Wits Common-wealth (page 105)
(archaic) prodigious
(archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
(archaic) extreme
(archaic) Exceedingly.
*, II.7:
* 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:
(archaic) The situation of being in excess.
* 1812 , Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command , page 198:
As adjectives the difference between succeeding and exceeding
is that succeeding is following, next in order while exceeding is (archaic) prodigious.As verbs the difference between succeeding and exceeding
is that succeeding is while exceeding is .As nouns the difference between succeeding and exceeding
is that succeeding is success while exceeding is (archaic) the situation of being in excess.As an adverb exceeding is
(archaic) exceedingly.succeeding
English
Adjective
(head)Antonyms
* precedingVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- It is good for a man in the midst of prosperity to fear a Ruin, and in the midst of adversity to hope for better succeedings .
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