paramountcy
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paramountcy (countable and uncountable, plural paramountcies)
- The fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence. [from 17th c.]
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] [1], London: Folio Society, published 2008, page 228:
- we 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 […] .
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 203:
- 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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 703:
- 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 [...].