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  • English Word Excellence Definition The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  • English Word Excellence Definition An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
  • English Word Excellence Definition A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.
  • English Word Excellencies Definition of Excellency
  • English Word Excellency Definition Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
  • English Word Excellency Definition 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.
  • English Word Excellent Definition Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.
  • English Word Excellent Definition Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.
  • English Word Excellent Definition Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.
  • English Word Excellently Definition In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.
  • English Word Excellently Definition In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness.
  • English Word Excelling Definition of Excel
  • English Word Excelsior Definition More lofty; still higher; ever upward.
  • English Word Excelsior Definition A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.
  • English Word Excentral Definition Out of the center.
  • English Word Excentric Definition Alt. of Excentrical
  • English Word Excentrical Definition Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
  • English Word Excentrical Definition One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.
  • English Word Excentricity Definition Same as Eccentricity.
  • English Word Except Definition To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
  • English Word Except Definition To object to; to protest against.
  • English Word Except Definition To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
  • English Word Except Definition With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
  • English Word Except Definition Unless; if it be not so that.
  • English Word Exceptant Definition Making exception.
  • English Word Excepted Definition of Except
  • English Word Excepting Definition of Except
  • English Word Excepting Definition With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.
  • English Word Exception Definition The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
  • English Word Exception Definition That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.