Excellence meaning

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Excellence is defined as the condition of being superior.

An example of excellence is graduating from college with a 4.0.

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Excellency.
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Something in which one excels.
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The fact or condition of excelling; superiority; surpassing goodness, merit, etc.
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Something in which a person or thing excels; particular virtue.
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The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
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Something in which one excels.
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An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
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A title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.
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The state, quality, or condition of excelling; superiority.
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Origin of excellence

From Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia

Sentence Examples

  • The town is noted for the excellence of its pottery.

  • Hence it is referred to as "the Feast" par excellence (Heb.

  • One cause for the excellence of her letters is the great number of them.

  • excellence which in some respects has never been excelled or even perhaps equalled.

  • The standard of excellence in the ancient writers was indeed far above the level of the 16th century; but the fatal habit of taking at second hand what should have been acquired by direct observation retarded progress more than the possession of better models assisted it, so that the fundamental faults of medieval science remained uncorrected.

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