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 send greetings of good wishes to your excellency and the People of China," the Pope said in the telegram addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2023
“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
I'm sure his excellency cannot know what's passing!
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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
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
Ugwu’s salute was slack, because he was worried about Olanna and Master and Baby in Umuahia, because he was not interested in His Excellency, because he did not care for the commander.
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
I will remove their excellencies at once and disappoint those donkeys who are greedily on the look-out for an esclandre.'
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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