excellency

Excellency
    n 1: a title used to address dignitaries (such as ambassadors or
         governors); usually preceded by `Your' or `His' or `Her';
         "Your Excellency"
    2: an outstanding feature; something in which something or
       someone excels; "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the
       use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine"
       [syn: {excellence}, {excellency}]
    

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.
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            Consider first that great
            Or bright infers not excellence.      --Milton.
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   2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one
      excels or is eminent; a virtue.
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            With every excellence refined.        --Beattie.
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   3. A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form
      {excellency}.
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            I do greet your excellence
            With letters of commission from the king. --Shak.

   Syn: Superiority; pre["e]minence; perfection; worth;
        goodness; purity; greatness.
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Excellency \Ex"cel*len*cy\, n.; pl. {Excellencies}.
   1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
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            His excellency is over Israel.        --Ps. lxviii.
                                                  34.
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            Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
                                                  --Hooker.
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   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.
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