The word "excellencies" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used when address a group of people in a formal setting. For example, you could say: "Your Excellencies, it is an honor to be able to meet with you today."
On 28 July 1999 the 14-year-olds clambered aboard flight 520 bound for Brussels to deliver it by hand to the "Excellencies, Messrs. members and officials of Europe".
Wess Mitchell, President of the CEPA thinktank; Kurt Volker, former ambassador to NATO, now at SAIS; and Damon Wilson of the Atlantic Council.Your Excellencies: The recent arrest of former prime minister of Ukraine Yuliya Tymoshenko crosses a line on respect for democratic principles and practice in one of the EU's most important Eastern Partners.
On Monday evening Google unveiled its latest Transparency Report to the excellencies in attendance.
For the most part, and in most places, the era of "Serene Highnesses" and "Your Excellencies" is over.
Exotic trophies were carefully positioned around the room: a piece of Antwerp bobbin lace on the wall; an ancient Mesopotamian rock on the coffee table; on the bookshelf a picture of their Excellencies on a snowcapped mountain.
Pope's solution was to flag the excellencies with a comma in the margin — or, if they were particularly "shining" examples, with a star — whereas "excessively bad" passages were "degraded to the bottom of the page".
His Excellency and his excellent wife were polite and devoid of any human vigor.
"The food is excellent," I said, stifling the impulse to append "Your Excellency" to the assessment.
Here is his statement: I have written to Kevin Rudd indicating that I will provide him confidence in the House of Representatives in the event that her Excellency the Governor-General commissions him as Prime Minister.
Dictatorial allcomers must bow before Ugandan president Idi Amin, who styled himself His Excellency, President for Life [sic], Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
So the rules soon changed to first names all round, though ambassadors, at least in public, may be called "Your Excellency" by other diplomats and "Sir" or, particularly if female, "Ambassador" by their own staff.This shift, the biggest in the English politeness code since "thee" and "thou" fell into disuse, has accelerated.
