excellencies

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excellencies - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Excellency \Ex"cel*len*cy\, n.; pl. Excellencies.
     1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
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              His excellency is over Israel.        --Ps. lxviii.
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              Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
                                                    --Hooker.
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     2. 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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