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Webster 1913 Edition
Excellency
Ex′cel-len-cy
,Noun.
pl.
Excellencies
. 1.
Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
His
excellency
is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34.
Extinguish in men the sense of their own
excellency
. Hooker.
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.