pre-excellency

== English == === Etymology === From pre- +‎ excellency. === Noun === pre-excellency (uncountable) (obsolete) Pre-eminent superiority; pre-excellence. [17th–18th c.] , II.12: 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.