excellency
IPA: ˈɛksɫˈɛnsi
Root Word: Excellency
noun
- (used with His, Her or Your) A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries.
- Synonym of excellence; the quality of being excellent.
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Examples of "excellency" in Sentences
- Your excellency is the lion of which the fable remarks:
- 34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
- Paul implies that His one sacrifice, by its matchless excellency, is equivalent to the Levitical many sacrifices.
- Its sole excellency is that it should bear fruit; when it does not bear fruit, it is not only not better, but inferior to other trees: so if
- By the gospel life and immortality are brought to light, are brought to hand, a life which transcends this as much in excellency as it does in duration.
- Your excellency is doubtless aware that all the modern improvements in the arts of war & navigation are adopted and practiced in my country quite as thoroughly and extensively as in Europe.
- They were before you in excellency, above what you are yet arrived at; they were before you in time, that they might be examples to you of suffering affliction and of patience, James v. 10.
- In the kingdom of grace: His excellency is over Israel; he shows his sovereign care in protecting and governing his church; that is the excellency of his power, which is employed for the good of his people.
- The psalmist gives an account of the excellent properties and uses of the word of God, in six sentences (v. 7-9), in each of which the name Jehovah is repeated, and no vain repetition, for the law has its authority and all its excellency from the law-maker.
- Higher in the heart of the country are shady woods and forests, graced and beautified with stately trees of frankincense and myrrh, palm trees, cinnamon and such-like odoriferous plants; for none can enumerate the several natures and properties of so great a multitude, or the excellency of those sweet odours that breathe out of every one of them, for their excellency is such that it even ravishes the senses with delight, as a thing divine and unutterable, and these spices have nothing of a faint and languishing
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