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Excellence vs Godliness - What's the difference?

excellence | godliness |

As a proper noun excellence

is a title of honor or respect; more common in the form excellency.

As a noun godliness is

the condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.

excellence

English

(wikipedia excellence)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  • Something in which one excels.
  • An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

    • Synonyms

    * superiority * pre-eminence * perfection * worth * goodness * purity * greatness

    See also

    * par excellence ----

    godliness

    English

    Noun

  • The condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.
  • * 1562 , The Thirty-Nine Articles , :
    • Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God's laws either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness .
  • * 1604 , Shakespeare, Othello , :
    • Nay, but he prated,
    And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
    Against your honour
    That, with the little godliness I have,
    I did full hard forbear him.

    See also

    * deity