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EXCEEDINGLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an extreme degree

Example:

as a child, I was deathly afraid of snakes

Synonyms:

deathly; exceedingly; extremely; super

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 Context examples: 

I should like the work exceedingly, if she would allow me a share in it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Lady Lieven, who is exceedingly exigeant, used to invite him to her evenings merely that he might exhibit it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The family are anxious, and as they are exceedingly wealthy no sum will be spared if we can clear the matter up.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team revealed that 36.5% of all land plant species are "exceedingly rare": they have been observed and recorded less than five times.

(Nearly 40% of plant species are very rare, and vulnerable to climate change, National Science Foundation)

An exceedingly rare benign endobronchial neoplasm characterized by the presence of fibrovascular cores which are lined by both squamous and glandular epithelium.

(Lung Mixed Squamous and Glandular Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

The new-comer to whom this abrupt query had been addressed was a tall and exceedingly handsome cavalier who had just been ushered into the apartment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet Catherine was in very good looks, and had the company only seen her three years before, they would now have thought her exceedingly handsome.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It is associated with a long history of tobacco and alcohol abuse and is exceedingly rare before the age of 30.

(Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Since acute eosinophilic leukemia is at best exceedingly rare, the term eosinophilic leukemia is normally used as a synonym for chronic eosinophilic leukemia.

(Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)