The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excellency \Ex"cel*len*cy\, n.; pl. Excellencies.
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Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
His excellency is over Israel.
--Ps. lxviii. 34.Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
--Hooker. 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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n. (plural of excellency English)
Usage examples of "excellencies".
Now we must guard their Excellencies against intrusion while they interrogate the prisoner.
Their Excellencies were personally escorting Lord Hagen’s murderer from the cells.
The way that their Excellencies prepare us for – when all that is imperfect in this world will be destroyed and no flaws shall exist.
Subsequent to his arrest, freed from the fear of his dangerous presence, witnesses have testified that on numerous occasions he has actively tried to persuade them to join him in plotting for the overthrowing of your Excellencies and the reinstatement of the outlaw Ibryen.
Their Excellencies have ordered that nothing is to impede the full levying of the army and the Guards – not even our sleep.
Their Excellencies must be freed to lead us out beyond the confines of this land.
Their Excellencies will receive you, but formal etiquette need not be observed, and Your Excellencies will be able to recover from the dreadful experiences I fear Your Excellencies have undergone.
So now my wife and I will withdraw and leave Your Excellencies to rest, assuring Your Excellencies that our sincerest hope is for your rapid recovery.
Even Hornblower did not come to realise, until he began to discuss the arrangements with Mendez-Castillo, the enormous condescension, the extreme strain put upon palace etiquette, involved in the back-stairs visit Their Excellencies had paid to the battered castaways who had claimed their hospitality.
Ahead of them at the end of an avenue of halberdiers were two chairs of state backed by a semicircle of uniforms and court gowns, with Their Excellencies sitting awaiting them.
Hornblower bowed again, twice, and Barbara went down in two more curtsies, and then they withdrew diagonally so as to allow Their Excellencies no glimpse of their backs.