Excellence
['eks(ə)l(ə)ns] or ['ɛksləns]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree.
(noun.) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; 'a center of manufacturing excellence'; 'the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
(n.) An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
(n.) A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Superiority, pre-eminence, transcendence.[2]. Good quality.[3]. Worth, goodness, uprightness, probity, purity.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EXCEL]
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Examples
- If she had had a daughter now, a grown young lady, to interest her, I think she would have had the only kind of excellence she wants. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Don't look forward to variety, but you'll have excellence. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And has not the soul an excellence also? Plato. The Republic.
- Children proverbially live in the present; that is not only a fact not to be evaded, but it is an excellence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He performed in public, and carried the prize of excellence. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps him silent. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Can virtue, approved excellence in any line, be learned, they asked? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He entrusted to her keeping the treasures of his soul, his aspirations after excellence, and his plans for the improvement of mankind. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The illusion was rendered more perfect by the excellence of the painting, and by the sensitive condition of the eye in the darkness of the surrounding chamber. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Will you commune less with his departed spirit, while you watch over and cultivate the rare excellence of his child? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And that to which an end is appointed has also an excellence? Plato. The Republic.
- Would you say that all men are equal in excellence, or is one man better than another? Plato. The Republic.
- And has not the eye an excellence? Plato. The Republic.
- His soul was sympathy, and dedicated to the worship of beauty and excellence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And the ear has an end and an excellence also? Plato. The Republic.
- You have all--nay, more than all--those qualities which I have ever regarded as the characteristic excellences of womanhood. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Suppose then, I said, that we determine how far they can unite this and the other excellences. Plato. The Republic.
- Of the many excellences which I perceive in the order of our State, there is none which upon reflection pleases me better than the rule about poetry. Plato. The Republic.
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