excellence

  1. Proper noun.  A title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.
  2. Noun.  The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  3. Noun.  Something in which one excels.
  4. Noun.  An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

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