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 /
noun
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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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Etymology
Origin of excellency
1275–1325; Middle English excellencie < Latin excellentia. See excellent, -ency
Example Sentences
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"It's just that for this moment we would want to continue the political stability. We want to continue the economic development that is taking place since his excellency took over in 2018," Chinamasa said.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
"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
In office, he discarded the title "excellency" and opened up the Blue House to the public.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2021
True, your excellency, but the King will not see him.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
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
Here, he is formally referred to as: His Excellency, Randy “R Dub!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
What we saw last week was a passion for sport that His Excellency has.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
He wrote excitedly to a cardinal in Rome, praising Gutenberg and his pages, which he declared “exceedingly clean and correct in their script, and without error, such as Your Excellency could read effortlessly without glasses.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
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
“In yours, you could, and should, witness a wonderful recovery. That desperate hope — ladies and gentlemen, delegates, excellencies — is why the world is looking to you and why you are here.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021
These excellencies are small moments tucked into a baggy novel that struggles to find its focus.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2020
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
These changes in the government did not effect, in any degree, the spirit by which the prison was governed; and while each form had its peculiarities and excellencies, they all had their defects.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
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