excellence
/ˈɛksələns/ noun B1- The quality of being excellent; brilliance · John Davies was awarded for excellence in the field of computer security.
- Something in which one excels.
- An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.
Plural excellences
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Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.
The dinner, too, in its turn, was highly admired; and he begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellence of its cookery was owing.
I often tell young ladies, that no excellence in music is to be acquired without constant practice.
The ship became an enduring symbol of excellence and maritime pride for the entire nation.
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