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• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌpɑːɹ ˌɛksəˈlɑːns/, /ˌpɑːɹ ˈɛksəlɑːns/, /ˌpɑːɹ ˌɛksəˈlɒ̃s/, /ˌpɑːɹ ˈɛksəlɒ̃s/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌpɑr ˌɛksəˈlɑn(t)s/, /ˌpɑɹ ˌɛksəˈlɑns/
• ハイフネーション: par ex‧cel‧lence

副詞

par excellence (not comparable)

1. Because or on account of one's excellence.
   • 1584, George Peele, The Araygnement of Paris, ii, i:

     The name of Venus is in deede but bautye,
     And men me fayrest call, per excellencye.

2. Most excellently, variously intending
   1. Most especially, in particular, most notably (out of a thing or person's other attributes, roles, etc.).
      • 2009, John Murray, “Introduction”, in John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion:

        He was par excellence a theologian.

   2. In a superior way, in the most representative or fully-developed manner.
      • 1877, William Worthington Fowler, Woman on the American Frontier, page 99:

        She was par excellence the vigilant member of the house-hold.

使用する際の注意点

Now frequently italicized as a self-consciously foreign expression. As an adverb, usually placed before the descriptive noun or noun phrase.

同意語

• (most excellently): pre-eminently, supremely, above all

形容詞

par excellence (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Most excellent, variously intending
   1. Being the proper or truest example of a general name.
      • 1695 (published 1845), Earl of Perth, Letters, p. 61:

        The Santo (which is St. Antonio's church, called il Santo par excellence) […]

      • 1883, "Meteora" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XVI, p. 114:

        At one time they were twenty-four in number; but Holland (1812) and Hughes (1814) found them reduced to ten; at Curzon's visit (1834) there were only seven; and in 1853 not more than four of these were inhabited by more than two or three monks. Meteora par excellence is the largest and perhaps the most ancient.

   2. Being a quintessential example of a general type.
      • 1839 August, Edgar Allan Poe, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, page 68:

        This is the age of invention, most certainly—the age, one may say—the age par excellence.

      • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter”, in Tales, page 212:

        The mathematical reason has long been regarded as the reason par excellence.

使用する際の注意点

Now frequently italicized as a self-consciously foreign usage. As an adjective, usually used as a post-modifier after the descriptive noun or noun phrase.

同意語

• (truest example of a general name): See proper

参照

• "par excellence, adv. and adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.