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Excellence vs Precellency - What's the difference?

excellence | precellency |

As a proper noun excellence

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

As a noun precellency is

(obsolete) excellence, superiority, preeminence.

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 ----

    precellency

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) excellence, superiority, preeminence
  • * 1662 , , p. 1:
    • then be put upon so much immodesty my self as to speak anything that may seem to give it any precellency above what is already extant in the world about the same matter.

    Synonyms

    * precellence