primary
adjective
first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal.
primariness
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a word derived from
primary.
Example Sentences
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The Highest, Jaimini thinks; on account of primariness of meaning.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
Whatever other objections have been made to this second proposition, arise, as far as I remember, merely from a confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness with the idea of nobleness.
From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John
