Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or rank of being paramount.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority
Etymologies
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Examples
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This includes fixing certain elements of the now-abrogated 1997 constitution, including voting reform and most likely deleting the provision that provides paramountcy to interests of the indigenous Fijian community over those of other ethnic communities.
Global Voices in English » Fiji’s President voids constitution, calls for elections in five years 2009
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The Commission determined that the paramountcy of the Bakwena Ba
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For the Batlokwa Ba Mota of the Free State, the Commission found that this paramountcy was not a kingship.
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In case of the Bapedi of Limpopo, the Commission found that the paramountcy of the Bapedi was a kingship and that this kingship resorts under the lineage of Sekhukhune.
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It concluded that the Ndzundza-Mabhoko paramountcy was not a kingship.
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It concluded that the amaRharhabe paramountcy was not a kingship.
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And some will doubt the paramountcy among Mrs. Clinton's motives of pressing Obama to focus on health care.
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The principles include the paramountcy of the best interest of the child, the right to child participation in any matter concerning that child, children living with disability or chronic illness and a child's right of access to court.
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The paramountcy of neoconservatism and Joe Lieberm...
Extremism in the right-wing blogosphere - con't Glenn Greenwald 2006
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The paramountcy of neoconservatism and Joe Lieberm...
Right-wing tempter tantrums - Hamdan and illegal eavesdropping Glenn Greenwald 2006
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