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cencualli.

Headword: 
cencualli.
Principal English Translation: 

someone or something entirely good (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
cencualtzin, cenqualli, cenqualtzin
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"...Estas se anteponen al nombre á quien se atribuye tal cosa , v.g. cencualli: cenquizca cualli in tlacatl, el hombre es muy bueno, bonísimo."
Faustino Chimalpopoca, Epitome ó modo fácil de aprender el idioma Nahuatl ó lengua mexicana, 1869, 94.