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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. a title used to address dignitaries (such as ambassadors or governors); usually preceded by `Your' or `His' or `Her';
- Example: "Your Excellency"
2. an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels;
- Example: "a center of manufacturing excellence"
- Example: "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine"
[syn: excellence, excellency]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Excellence \Ex"cel*lence\, n. [F. excellence, L. excellentia.] 1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. [1913 Webster] Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue. [1913 Webster] With every excellence refined. --Beattie. [1913 Webster] 3. A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency. [1913 Webster] I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king. --Shak. Syn: Superiority; pre["e]minence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Excellency \Ex"cel*len*cy\, n.; pl. Excellencies. 1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority. [1913 Webster] His excellency is over Israel. --Ps. lxviii. 34. [1913 Webster] Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes. [1913 Webster]
