Excellence /(?)/

Ex·cel·lence

Excellence

n.
  1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
    Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence.
  2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
    With every excellence refined.
    — Beattie.
  3. A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.
    I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king.