precellency

English

Noun

precellency (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) excellence, superiority, preeminence
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, page 1:

     […] 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.

Synonyms

• precellence