Now rare. [f. as prec.: see -ENCY.] = prec. Also, something that is superexcellent.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, iii. (1592), 29. Then is it this first simplicitie which is the King; the Soueraignetie and Superexcellencie of all things.
1600. J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, III. 205. I could finde no such superexcellencie in him.
1603. Breton, Dial. Pithe & Pleasure, Wks. (Grosart), II. 15/1. Man … can effect so rare excellencies in the world, and beholde so many superexcellencies in the heauens, as the eye of no creature but man is able to looke after.
1660. R. Burney, Κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661), 109. Our Parliaments in England and Scotland have a superexcellency above all the councels of the world.
1707. Norris, Treat. Humility, i. 38. The superexcellency of his nature.
1870. Gillespie, Being & Attrib. God, IV. iii. (1906), 212. The doctrine of one great Attribute, or Super-Excellency of Holiness.
