excellence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Ex=cel=lence
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 2 verses (in NT : 3 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

excellence, n. [F. excellence, L. excellentia.].

•  The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.  [1913 Webster]

  "Consider first that great
  Or bright infers not excellence."  [1913 Webster]
•  An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.  [1913 Webster]

  "With every excellence refined."  [1913 Webster]
•  A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.  [1913 Webster]

  "I do greet your excellence
  With letters of commission from the king."

Syn. -- Superiority; pre'89minence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

excellence, n.
1 the state of excelling; surpassing merit or quality.
2 the activity etc. in which a person excels.

Etymology

ME f. OF excellence or L excellentia (as EXCEL)

THESAURUS

excellence

accomplishment, acquired taste, advantageousness, agreeableness, appreciation of excellence, arete, ascendancy, auspiciousness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, choiceness, civilized taste, civilizedness, class, cogency, consequence, conspicuousness, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, deanship, delicacy, desert, discrimination, distinction, elegance, elevation, eminence, exaltation, excellency, expedience, fairness, fastidiousness, favor, favorableness, fineness, finesse, first-rateness, good taste, goodliness, goodness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grandeur, greatness, healthiness, helpfulness, high mightiness, importance, incomparability, inimitability, kindness, lead, loftiness, majority, mark, merit, niceness, nicety, nobility, notability, note, one-upmanship, outstandingness, perfection, pleasantness, polish, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, privilege, profitableness, prominence, quality, refinement, rewardingness, right-of-way, seniority, significance, skill, skillfulness, sophistication, soundness, sublimity, subtlety, success, superbness, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, taste, tastefulness, transcendence, transcendency, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuosity, virtuousness, wholeness, worth

ROGET THESAURUS

excellence

Goodness

N goodness, excellence, merit, virtue, value, worth, price, super-excellence, supereminence, superiority, perfection, coup de maitre, masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth, champion, prodigy, tidbit, gem, gem of the first water, bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure, good thing, rara avis, one in a thousand, beneficence, good man, harmless, hurtless, unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive, beneficial, valuable, of value, serviceable, advantageous, edifying, profitable, salutary, favorable, propitious fair, good, good as gold, excellent, better, superior, above par, nice, fine, genuine, best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless, unparagoned, unparalleled, superlatively, good, bully, crackajack, giltedged, superfine, superexcellent, of the first water, first-rate, first-class, high- wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal, standard, inimitable, admirable, estimable, praiseworthy, pleasing, couleur de rose, precious, of great price, costly, worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye, priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye, tolerable, up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, satisfactory, tidy, in good condition, in fair condition, fresh, sound, beneficially, well, Jewels five words long, long may such goodness live!, the luxury of doing good.

Skill

N skill, skillfulness, address, dexterity, dexterousness, adroitness, expertness, proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight, mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy, ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, sleight of hand, seamanship, airmanship, marksmanship, horsemanship, rope-dancing, accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, art, science, technicality, technology, practical knowledge, technical knowledge, knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire, tact, mother wit, discretion, finesse, craftiness, management, self-help, cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius, intelligence, sharpness, readiness, invention, aptness, aptitude, turn for, capacity for, genius for, felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas, qualification, habilitation, proficient, masterpiece, coup de maitre, chef d'euvre, tour de force, good stroke, skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain, slick, smart, proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished, conversant, experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed, up in, well up in, in practice, in proper cue, competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted, fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished, clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed, inventive, shrewd, sharp, on the ball, cunning, alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff, discreet, neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure- footed, cut out for, fitted for, technical, artistic, scientific, daedalian, shipshape, workman- like, business-like, statesman-like, skillfully, well, artistically, with skill, with consummate skill, secundum artem, suo Marte, to the best of one's abilities, ars celare artem, artes honorabit, celui qui veut celui-la peut, c'est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher son, expertus metuit, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille sich ein C, heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute, if you have lemons, make lemonade.

Virtue

N virtue, virtuousness, morality, moral rectitude, integrity, nobleness, morals, ethics, cardinal virtues, merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit, self-control, self-denial, well-doing, good actions, good behavior, discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty, well-spent life, innocence, virtuous, good, innocent, meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct, dutiful, duteous, moral, right, righteous, right- minded, well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy, above all praise, beyond all praise, excellent, admirable, sterling, pure, noble, whole-souled, exemplary, matchless, peerless, saintly, saint-like, heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike, virtuously, adj, e merito, esse quam videri bonus malebat, Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht, virtue the greatest of all monarchies, virtus laudatur et alget, virtus vincit invidiam.