Precellency

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    excellence, superiority, preeminence obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] then be put upon so much immodesty my self as to speak anything that may seem to give it any precellency above what is already extant in the world about the same matter."

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"[…] then be put upon so much immodesty my self as to speak anything that may seem to give it any precellency above what is already extant in the world about the same matter."

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