Definizione monolingua

paramountcy

paramountcy (uncountable)

1. The fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 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 [...].

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 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 [...].

Definizione dizionario paramountcy

Altri significati:

The fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence.