precellency

noun

precellency

noun

1

Obsolete excellence, superiority, preeminence

[…] then be put upon so much immodesty my self as to speak anything that may seem to give it any precellency above what is already extant in the world about the same matter.1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, page 1:

Synonyms: precellence

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