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/ˈɛksələns/ Listen

noun

Excellence n.

The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. "Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence."

An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue. "With every excellence refined."

A title of honor or respect; more common in the form excellency. "I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king."

Synonyms: Superiority; preeminence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... French verse its distinction are very different from those that make the strength and the charm of our English lyrics. But we must guard ourselves against the conclusion that because a work is unlike those that we are accustomed to admire it is necessarily bad. There are many kinds of excellence. And this little book must have been poorly put together indeed if it fail to suggest to the reader that France possesses a wealth of lyric verse which, whatever be its shortcomings in those qualities that characterize our English lyrics, has others ...

— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... so arranged and discussed that the whole class receives real benefit. The ingenious teacher will be able to establish a tradition in his course for a careful preparation and critical discussion of these reports. The rivalry of students for excellence in this work is not difficult to stimulate. A premium should be put on criticism which finds mentioned in the characterization qualities inconsistent with the facts recorded in the text, or omissions which the facts of the text seem ...

— The Teaching of History • Ernest C. Hartwell

... unparalleled purity of life: David's two grandsons, Malcolm IV. and William, and William's son and grandson, Alexander II. and III., were noble Catholic kings. Thus did the influence of this saintly queen extend {168} over the space of two hundred years and form monarchs of extraordinary excellence to ...

— A Calendar of Scottish Saints • Michael Barrett

... purport that I have ever had in view in my writing. I have always desired to 'hew out some lump of the earth', and to make men and women walk upon it just as they do walk here among us,—with not more of excellence, nor with exaggerated baseness,—so that my readers might recognise human beings like to themselves, and not feel themselves to be carried away among gods or demons. If I could do this, then I thought ...

— Nina Balatka • Anthony Trollope

... idea of the century. Does it, for instance, contain that thrice fruitful idea which Turgot developed in 1750, of all the ages being linked together by an ordered succession of causes and effects? These and other objections, however, hardly affect the brilliance and substantial excellence of all this part of the book. It is when he proceeds to estimate these great men, not as writers but as social forces, not as stylists but as apostles, that M. Taine discloses the characteristic weaknesses of the bookman in dealing with the facts of concrete sociology. He ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) - Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century • John Morley

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