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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Excellence \Ex"cel*lence\, n. [F. excellence, L. excellentia.]
     1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good
        qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority
        in virtue.
  
              Consider first that great Or bright infers not
              excellence.                           --Milton.
  
     2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one
        excels or is eminent; a virtue.
  
              With every excellence refined.        --Beattie.
  
     3. A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form
        excellency.
  
              I do greet your excellence With letters of
              commission from the king.             --Shak.
  
     Syn: Superiority; pre["e]minence; perfection; worth;
          goodness; purity; greatness.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excellence
       n 1: the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high
            degree
       2: something in which something or some one excels; "the use of
          herbs is one of the excellences of French cuisine"

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