par excellence

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   to a degree of excellence

   “he is the honest politician par excellence”

Questions about par excellence

What does par excellence mean?

par excellence means "to a degree of excellence".

Is par excellence a common word?

par excellence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.