Definitions for: Excellency

[n] a title used to address dignitaries (such as ambassadors or governors); usually preceded by Your or His or Her; "Your Excellency"

Webster (1913) Definition: Ex"cel*len*cy, n.; pl. Excellencies.
1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

His excellency is over Israel. --Ps. lxviii.
34.

Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
--Hooker.

2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp.
to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English
colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given
to kings and princes.

See Also: important person, influential person, personage

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