pre-excellencen.

Brit.

/priːˈɛksəl(ə)ns/, U.S.

/priˈɛks(ə)ləns/

Forms: late Middle English 1700s– pre-excellence, 1600s preëxcellence; also Scottish pre-1700 perexcellence (perhaps transmission error).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, excellence n.

Etymology: < pre- prefix + excellence n. Compare post-classical Latin praeexcellentia (8th cent.), Middle French, French préexcellence (1551). Compare slightly earlier precellence n. (and the Latin and French forms cited at that entry).

Now rare.

Pre-eminent excellence; absolute superiority.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [noun]

pricea1275

sovereigntyc1340

primacyc1384

sublimityc1429

vassalagec1430

precellence?a1439

pre-excellencec1450

pre-eminencec1460

superexcellencec1475

chief1519

pre-eminency1523

greaterness1540

precellency1557

superexcellency?1563

divinenessa1586

superancya1586

sublimenessa1599

pre-excellency1603

especialness1614

transcendencea1616

transcendency1615

transcendentness1625

top1627

antecellency1657

quality1665

transcendingness1730

transcendentalism1841

surpassingness1879

transcendentality1881

c1450 J. Lydgate Interp. & Virtues Mass 625 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 113 [The hede hath a] pre-excellence [Aboue all membres in comparyson].

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 254 Be all lawis the law of nature has prerogatyf, and perexcellence [perh. read preexcellence].

1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie ii. 32 Here Souldiers are of the bravest and most desperatest of all Turkes, so esteemed for valour and that with the grand Segniour himselfe, who ascribes them the preëxcellence of vertue above his owne Ianissaries.

1722 E. Philalethes Long Livers xiv. 88 Guillaume Roullé, in the third Part of the Pre-excellence of Gaul, reports, that in the Parish of Ancines..there died in his Time a Man aged 150 Years.

1770 J. Andrews Acct. Char. & Manners French II. 110 The Pre-excellence of their Language for the Purposes of social Intercourse.

1856 G. H. Calvert Like unto Like i. i, in Comedies 83 I would lift her to the jewelled height, Endowed for her pre-excellence.

1963 Italica 40 313 Castelvetro..is careful to observe that, in his opinion, there is nothing improper in extolling Plato's preexcellence.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pre-excellence
释义	pre-excellencen. Brit. /priːˈɛksəl(ə)ns/, U.S. /priˈɛks(ə)ləns/ Forms: late Middle English 1700s– pre-excellence, 1600s preëxcellence; also Scottish pre-1700 perexcellence (perhaps transmission error). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, excellence n. Etymology: < pre- prefix + excellence n. Compare post-classical Latin praeexcellentia (8th cent.), Middle French, French préexcellence (1551). Compare slightly earlier precellence n. (and the Latin and French forms cited at that entry). Now rare. Pre-eminent excellence; absolute superiority. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [noun] pricea1275 sovereigntyc1340 primacyc1384 sublimityc1429 vassalagec1430 precellence?a1439 pre-excellencec1450 pre-eminencec1460 superexcellencec1475 chief1519 pre-eminency1523 greaterness1540 precellency1557 superexcellency?1563 divinenessa1586 superancya1586 sublimenessa1599 pre-excellency1603 especialness1614 transcendencea1616 transcendency1615 transcendentness1625 top1627 antecellency1657 quality1665 transcendingness1730 transcendentalism1841 surpassingness1879 transcendentality1881 c1450 J. Lydgate Interp. & Virtues Mass 625 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 113 [The hede hath a] pre-excellence [Aboue all membres in comparyson]. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 254 Be all lawis the law of nature has prerogatyf, and perexcellence [perh. read preexcellence]. 1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie ii. 32 Here Souldiers are of the bravest and most desperatest of all Turkes, so esteemed for valour and that with the grand Segniour himselfe, who ascribes them the preëxcellence of vertue above his owne Ianissaries. 1722 E. Philalethes Long Livers xiv. 88 Guillaume Roullé, in the third Part of the Pre-excellence of Gaul, reports, that in the Parish of Ancines..there died in his Time a Man aged 150 Years. 1770 J. Andrews Acct. Char. & Manners French II. 110 The Pre-excellence of their Language for the Purposes of social Intercourse. 1856 G. H. Calvert Like unto Like i. i, in Comedies 83 I would lift her to the jewelled height, Endowed for her pre-excellence. 1963 Italica 40 313 Castelvetro..is careful to observe that, in his opinion, there is nothing improper in extolling Plato's preexcellence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450
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