par excellence

Meaning

1. Most excellent, variously intending
2. Most excellently, variously intending
3. Being the proper or truest example of a general name.
4. Because or on account of one's excellence.
5. Being a quintessential example of a general type.
6. Most especially, in particular, most notably (out of a thing or person's other attributes, roles, etc.).
7. In a superior way, in the most representative or fully-developed manner.

Etymology / origin

Unadapted borrowing from French par excellence (“excellently, in an especially representative way; above all”), a calque of Latin per excellentiam, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κατ' ἐξοχήν (kat' exokhḗn).

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