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单词 in excess of
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in excess of
a. The fact of exceeding something else in amount or degree; preponderance. †Also the fact of surpassing or excelling others (obsolete). in excess of: to a greater amount or degree than.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > condition of being more than another
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a1618 W. Raleigh Maxims of State (1651) 64 An excellency or excess above the rest, either in honour, wealth, or virtue.
1704 I. Newton Opticks ii. i. 107 Rays..retain their colorific qualities, by which those of any sort..do by their excess and predominance cause their proper Colour to appear.
1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) Introd. 27 In things whose excess is not judged by greater or smaller, as smoothness and roughness [etc.].
1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 115 There can be no possible reason for an excess of white, which does not equally..apply in favour of an excess of black.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. iii. 242 The quantity we receive is in excess of the quantity lost.
1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight ii. 30 When..one or more muscles act in excess of their opponents, a squint is produced.
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