Definition of Excellency

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Excellency

Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.

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Excellency Quotations

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
Manfred von Richthofen

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
Mary Astell

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.
Alberto Fujimori

Excellency Translations

excellency in Dutch is hoogheid, eerwaarde, majesteit
Excellency in French is excellence
excellency in German is Exzellenz
Excellency in Spanish is Excelencia

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