Excellence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excellence
       n 1: the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high
            degree
       2: something in which something or some one excels; "the use of
          herbs is one of the excellences of French cuisine"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "excellence":
     accomplishment, acquired taste, advantageousness, agreeableness,
     appreciation of excellence, arete, ascendancy, auspiciousness,
     beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, choiceness,
     civilized taste, civilizedness, class, cogency, consequence,
     conspicuousness, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture,
     daintiness, deanship, delicacy, desert, discrimination,
     distinction, elegance, elevation, eminence, exaltation, excellency,
     expedience, fairness, fastidiousness, favor, favorableness,
     fineness, finesse, first-rateness, good taste, goodliness,
     goodness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness,
     grandeur, greatness, healthiness, helpfulness, high mightiness,
     importance, incomparability, inimitability, kindness, lead,
     loftiness, majority, mark, merit, niceness, nicety, nobility,
     notability, note, one-upmanship, outstandingness, perfection,
     pleasantness, polish, precedence, predominance, predomination,
     preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative,
     prestige, priority, privilege, profitableness, prominence, quality,
     refinement, rewardingness, right-of-way, seniority, significance,
     skill, skillfulness, sophistication, soundness, sublimity,
     subtlety, success, superbness, supereminence, superiority,
     supremacy, taste, tastefulness, transcendence, transcendency,
     usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuosity, virtuousness,
     wholeness, worth