paramount
adjective
chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent.
paramountcy
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a word derived from
paramount.
Example Sentences
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If it signs up to that, to the end of cover-ups, to clarity about the paramountcy of children’s protection, then change might finally be coming.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2019
Sea-strength and paramountcy might not wholly come to be measured in terms of thickness of the armour-plating—in calibre of the great guns.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
But Bonaparte would not tolerate the domination of the black conqueror, and despatched an expedition to San Domingo to overthrow his government and establish French paramountcy.
From Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Ernest Scott
British interests, British paramountcy, etc., were supposed to be seriously threatened by a great Pan-Africander conspiracy, which had for its objective the total elimination of the Imperial factor in South Africa.
From In the Shadow of Death by P. H. Kritzinger
For the rest, the career of Joseph Chamberlain, like that of Joseph Cowen, has its explanation in the passion for paramountcy.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
