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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Being the best or truest of a kind; quintessential.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun By virtue of manifest superiority; by the highest right, claim, or qualification; preëminently.

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  • adjective Being the best of its kind.
  • adjective Being a quintessential example of the kind in question.

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  • adverb to a degree of excellence

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : par, by + excellence, preeminence.]

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Borrowed from French par excellence ("by excellence").

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