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And now, Your Excellencies and Eminences, a brief refresher course in forms of address:

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2014

Nonetheless, the Governors' conferences so far held have generally attracted a great deal less than half of their Excellencies, the 48 Governors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Almost at once it appeared that the chief thing all these assembled Excellencies wished to accomplish was the avoidance of controversial subjects.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once the Excellencies introduced the Countess to a deferential man who had "the face of a seal and breathed very loudly through his short nose."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Graces and Excellencies, both of Thought and Expression, do much more deserve our Admiration and Applause, than the Deficiency in the Fable deserves Censure.

From An Essay on Criticism by Oldmixon, John