excellency
noun
Also Excellence. a title of honor given to certain high officials, as governors, ambassadors, and Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops (preceded by his, your, etc.).
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Excellencynouna title used to address or refer to a high-ranking official, such as an ambassador or governor
excellency
American
[ek-suh-luhn-see]
/ ˈɛk sə lən si /
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excellencies
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(usually initial capital letter) Also Excellence. a title of honor given to certain high officials, as governors, ambassadors, and Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops (preceded by his, your, etc.).
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(usually initial capital letter) a person so entitled.
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(usually initial capital letter) the title of the governor general of Canada while in office.
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Usually excellencies. excellent qualities or features.
Excellency
British
/ ˈɛksələnsɪ /
noun
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a title used to address or refer to a high-ranking official, such as an ambassador or governor
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RC Church a title of bishops and archbishops in many non-English-speaking countries
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Origin of excellency
1275–1325; Middle English excellencie < Latin excellentia. See excellent, -ency
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"It's just another example of our partnership. And I hope you know, your excellency, that you can count on us."
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
“The document shows Brazil has fulfilled with excellency all the rigid demands of the bidding process,” Brazilian soccer confederation president Ednaldo Rodrigues said.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
“I would request your excellency to kindly convey this small message to the world leaders and big and rich nations to help and save our tiny village from global warming,” she wrote.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
In office, he discarded the title "excellency" and opened up the Blue House to the public.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2021
"Your excellency must have made a very long journey indeed, then," he said, with conviction.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
Text messages recovered from her phone showed Sanomi pledging his "loyalty and commitment", and agreeing to collect Louis Vuitton hat boxes, replying: "Yes Your Excellency consider this done".
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
In 1922, Jewan Singh & Sons was appointed watchmaker to the governor of the Punjab, His Excellency Sir Edward Maclagan, knight commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
COVID-19 shuttered his next project, the Harlem Food Hall, but then Smalls received an unexpected call from Her Excellency, the sheikh of Dubai’s daughter, which led to his work on Alkebulan.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025
Here, he is formally referred to as: His Excellency, Randy “R Dub!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
But his greatest pleasure had come from meeting His Excellency.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Prince Joachim's descendants will thus have to be addressed as excellencies in the future."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022
These excellencies are small moments tucked into a baggy novel that struggles to find its focus.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2020
Melania Trump entered the room, strode to the rostrum, smiled and said, “Your excellencies, esteemed represent — ”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2017
Pope’s solution was to flag the excellencies with a comma in the margin—or, if they were particularly “shining” examples, with a star—whereas “excessively bad” passages were “degraded to the bottom of the page.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015
This kind of work soon shakes our novices into the saddle, and its many excellencies far outweigh its few absurdities.
From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
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