excellency

Your excellency is doubtless aware that all the modern improvements in the arts of war & navigation are adopted and practiced in my country quite as thoroughly and extensively as in Europe.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

Paul implies that His one sacrifice, by its matchless excellency, is equivalent to the Levitical many sacrifices.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Its sole excellency is that it should bear fruit; when it does not bear fruit, it is not only not better, but inferior to other trees: so if

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

By the gospel life and immortality are brought to light, are brought to hand, a life which transcends this as much in excellency as it does in duration.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

They were before you in excellency, above what you are yet arrived at; they were before you in time, that they might be examples to you of suffering affliction and of patience, James v. 10.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

The psalmist gives an account of the excellent properties and uses of the word of God, in six sentences (v. 7-9), in each of which the name Jehovah is repeated, and no vain repetition, for the law has its authority and all its excellency from the law-maker.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

In the kingdom of grace: His excellency is over Israel; he shows his sovereign care in protecting and governing his church; that is the excellency of his power, which is employed for the good of his people.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Higher in the heart of the country are shady woods and forests, graced and beautified with stately trees of frankincense and myrrh, palm trees, cinnamon and such-like odoriferous plants; for none can enumerate the several natures and properties of so great a multitude, or the excellency of those sweet odours that breathe out of every one of them, for their excellency is such that it even ravishes the senses with delight, as a thing divine and unutterable, and these spices have nothing of a faint and languishing

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Your excellency is the lion of which the fable remarks:

The Idiot 2002