excellencies
- plural of excellency.
Example Sentences
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"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
The healthy and genial nature of the man accounts for his most characteristic excellencies, but this book exhibits much we had not looked for.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
