1598 J. Marston 1 Vnlesse my Mistres all-excelling face, Which giues to beautie, beauties onely grace.
1696 J. Lead 38 The Seventh [quality of the Tree of Faith] is an All-excelling Goodness.
1747 S. Richardson I. xv. 88 What a sweet revenge will she take,..if she can procure her rival and all-excelling sister to be married to the man that sister hates.
1859 9 July 11/1 The dress most fit for Volunteers is one that should be fashioned on the model which the Horse Guards has, in its all-excelling wisdom, invented for the ‘regulars’.
1905 ‘E. Bramah’ vi. 98 The agreeable person said that the pleasure he derived from meeting me was all-excelling.
2005 D. Mader tr. C. van der Kooi ii. 46 For Calvin, the realisation of an all-excelling majesty of God is not theory.