paramountcy
- 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
We do not hesitate to say that since the capture of Gibraltar, the Empire has secured no such chance for consolidating her paramountcy in Europe.
From Aliens by McFee, William
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 Bone, David W. (David William)
With the appearance of British paramountcy at the Cape came a hint of law and order, of progress and its accompaniment—taxation.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis
What, indeed, but a surrender of the paramountcy of struggle for life, is Huxley's celebrated Romanes lecture in which he supplants the cosmic process by the ethical?
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by O'Harra, Edwin V.
