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superˈexcellency Now rare.
[f. as prec.: see -ency.]
= prec. Also, something that is superexcellent.
1587Golding De Mornay iii. (1592) 29 Then is it this first simplicitie which is the King; the Soueraignetie and Super⁓excellencie of all things. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa iii. 205, I could finde no such superexcellencie in him. 1603Breton Dial. Pithe & Pleasure Wks. (Grosart) II. 15/1 Man..can effect so rare excellencies in the worlde, and beholde so many superexcellencies in the heauens, as the eye of no creature but man is able to looke after. 1660R. Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 109 Our Parliaments in England and Scotland have a superexcellency above all the councels of the world. 1707Norris Treat. Humility i. 38 The superexcellency of his nature. 1870Gillespie Being & Attrib. God iv. iii. (1906) 212 The one great Attribute, or Super-Excellency of Holiness. |