Excellence

n.	1.	The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. - Milton.
	2.	An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue. With every excellence refined. - Beattie.
	3.	A title of honor or respect; - more common in the form excellency. I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king. - Shak.

Noun	1.	excellence - the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
	2.	excellence - something in which something or some one excels; "the use of herbs is one of the excellences of French cuisine"

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