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Precellency

{

Pre-cel′lence

,

Pre-cel′len-cy

, }

Noun.

[L.

praecellentia

, from

praecellens

, p. pr. of

praecellere

to excel, surpass: cf. OF.

precellence

.]

Excellence; superiority.

[Obs.]

Sheldon.