pre-excellency

noun

Pre-eminent superiority; pre-excellence.

First used 17th–18th c.
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Meanings

nounpre-excellency (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablePre-eminent superiority; pre-excellence.First known use 17th–18th c.
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    Miserable man with all his wit cannot in effect goe beyond it: he is embraced, and engaged, and as other creatures of his ranke are, he is subjected in like bondes, and without any prerogative or essential pre-excellencie [translating praeexcellence], what ever Privilege he assume unto himselfe, he is of very meane condition.

    , II.12

Origin

From pre- + excellency.

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