[f. SUPEREXCELLENT: see -ENCE.] The quality or condition of being superexcellent; superior or supreme excellence.
1652. T. Benlowes in Benlowes’ Theoph., Pref. Verses C 1 b. This Original; Whose charming Empire of her Grace does Sense Astonish by a super-Excellence.
1683. Pordage, Mystic Div., 36. The Super-excellence of the Divine Being.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 190. The proud … if they still retain a fondness for reflecting on their superexcellence, it is like the unnatural thirst of a drunkard.
1885. R. L. & F. Stevenson, Dynamiter, 179. Considering the depth of his demerit and the height of the adored one’s super-excellence.
