pre-excellency

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  Pre-eminent superiority; pre-excellence.
 * , 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, what ever Privilege he assume unto himselfe, he is of very meane condition.