'Excellency' definitions:
Definition of 'Excellency'
(from WordNet)
noun
A title used to address dignitaries (such as ambassadors or governors); usually preceded by `Your' or `His' or `Her'; "Your Excellency"
noun
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]
Definition of 'Excellency'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'excellency'
From: GCIDE
- 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]