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English
Etymology
From pre- + excellency.
Noun
pre-excellency (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Pre-eminent superiority; pre-excellence.
- , II.12:
- Miserable man with all his wit cannot in effect goe beyond it: he is embraced, and engaged, and as other creatures of his ranke are, he is subjected in like bondes, and without any prerogative or essential pre-excellencie , what ever Privilege he assume unto himselfe, he is of very meane condition.