paramountcy

Definitions

The condition or fact of being paramount; precedence, supremacy; (countable) an instance of this.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[W]e saw⟳ this permanence to be true of the general paramountcy of the higher insight, even though in the ebbs of emotional excitement meaner motives might temporarily prevail and backsliding might occur⟳.”

“Both, they claim⟳, were British spies, sent into Central Asia as part of a grand design⟳ for paramountcy there at the expense of Russia, whose influence⟳ they aimed to destroy⟳.”

“Portuguese Church authorities often made things more difficult for non-Portuguese European missionaries by insisting on the paramountcy of their own⟳ culture and ecclesiastical jurisdiction […]”

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