\Ex"cel*len*cy\, n.; pl. {Excellencies}.
1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
         His excellency is over Israel.        --Ps. lxviii.
                                               34.
         Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
                                               --Hooker.
2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp.
   to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English
   colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given
   to kings and princes.