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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
excel .
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Examples
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The Old Testament begins with the book of the generation of the world, and it is its glory that it does so; but the glory of the New Testament herein excelleth, that it begins with the book of the generation of him that made the world.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Exclaimed one of them, ‘O my brother, verily, this young lady excelleth in beauty and loveliness and the love of her is fallen on my heart; wherefore I desire that thou give her to me and I will espouse her.’
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The most excellent of food is brewis404 or bread sopped in broth; according to the saying of the Prophet, ‘Brewis excelleth other food, even as Ayishah excelleth other women.’
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Wherefore the folk will think slightly of me and belittle my wit and I shall be of those of whom it is said, ‘He whose science excelleth his sense perisheth by his ignorance.’
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But if any one should examine the things which belong to the dispensation of grace, he will find that, small as they are, yet are they fearful and full of awe, and that what was spoken concerning the law is true in this case also, that “what has been made glorious hath no glory in this respect by reason of the glory which excelleth.”
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But if any one should examine the things which belong to the dispensation of grace, he will find that, small as they are, yet are they fearful and full of awe, and that what was spoken concerning the law is true in this case also, that “what has been made glorious hath no glory in this respect by reason of the glory which excelleth.”
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
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Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
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