单词 | superexcellence |
释义 | superexcellencen. The quality or condition of being superexcellent; superior or supreme excellence. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [noun] pricea1275 sovereigntyc1340 primacyc1384 sublimityc1429 vassalagec1430 precellence?a1439 pre-excellencec1450 pre-eminencec1460 superexcellencec1475 chief1519 pre-eminency1523 greaterness1540 precellency1557 superexcellency?1563 divinenessa1586 superancya1586 sublimenessa1599 pre-excellency1603 especialness1614 transcendencea1616 transcendency1615 transcendentness1625 top1627 antecellency1657 quality1665 transcendingness1730 transcendentalism1841 surpassingness1879 transcendentality1881 c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 291 (MED) Eclypsyd I am, for to determyne Thy superexcellence of Cantica canticorum. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) 72 The dyvinite..inhabiteth the hevene by glorye and by superexcellence. 1652 T. Benlowes Those Ladies, Sir in E. Benlowes Theophila This Original; Whose charming Empire of her Grace does Sense Astonish by a super-Excellence. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. xxiv. 138 The proud reap no delight from their pride;..and if they still retain a fondness for reflecting on their superexcellence, it is like the unnatural thirst of a drunkard. 1837 Penny Mag. 9 Sept. 341/1 In these mountain districts there are some peculiar streams noted for the superexcellence of their trout. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 179 Considering the depth of his demerit and the height of the adored one's super-excellence. 1920 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 70 As I read..there chased through my veins the little chills that are the tribute of the subconscious self to literary super-excellence. 2008 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 25 Aug. 5 What feats of sporting super-excellence. If this..is to be my last Olympics, then what a final act. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1475 |
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