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excellencia

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Noun

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excellencia f (uncountable)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of excelência.
    • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A proposito de um livro [Regarding a book]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 248:
      Feuillet é por excellencia o escriptor elegante e delicado.
      Feuillet is above all the elegant and refined writer.

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