Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excellent in an uncommon or superior degree; very excellent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent.
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- adjective Uncommonly
excellent ; of supreme excellence.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Valentius, &c. Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
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As a watchman he is invaluable, as a second captain or fundi, whose duty it is to bring up stragglers, he is superexcellent.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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The inmates of the dwelling looked to her for sympathy, advice, nursing, and all kinds of attention, as well as for the comfort which could come only by superexcellent housekeeping.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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As therefore there is in forms and figures something perfect and superexcellent, the appearance of which is stamped in our minds so that we imitate it, and refer to it everything which falls under our eyes; so we keep in our mind an idea of perfect eloquence, and seek for its resemblance with our ears.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mrs. Lindsay and the Grant Girls and Mrs. Brown and Tremendous K. 's mother were all superexcellent knitters, and Mrs. Brown who was no more afraid of Mrs. Sutherland than The Woman was, said right out in the meeting that the Kitchener Toe was jist some norms got up by the women in the town who hadn't enough to do, and had never learned to knit, anyhow!
In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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But it is not reverent to offer to a superexcellent person what properly belongs to inferiors.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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To the splendour of the chariots and the superexcellent beauty of the horses, the charioteers add the personality necessary to perfect the charm of their display.
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But He is incomparable, because in comparison with all He is in all things superexcellent.
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The inmates of the dwelling looked to her for sympathy, advice, nursing, and all kinds of attention, as well as for the comfort which could come only by superexcellent housekeeping.
Memories Beers, Fannie A. 1888
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How came it to pass that Lucifer, so excellent by nature and so superexcellent by grace, fell, while so many angels with less advantages remained upright in their fidelity?
Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884
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