pre-excellency en · NOUN
Etymology
From pre- + excellency.
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) Pre-eminent superiority; pre-excellence.
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 [translating praeexcellence], what ever Privilege he assume unto himselfe, he is of very meane condition.
, II.12