Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being supreme.
- noun Supreme power or authority.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; also, highest authority or power.
- noun An English statute of 1558–9 (1 Eliz., c. 1) vesting spiritual authority in the crown, to the exclusion of all foreign jurisdiction.
- noun Synonyms Predominance, etc. (sec priority), sovereignty, domination, mastery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power.
- noun [Eng.] an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the sovereign in spiritual affairs, and renounced or abjures the supremacy of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
supreme . - noun
Power over all others. - noun When used with a designation for a particular group, the assertion that the group in question is superior to or should rule over others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun power to dominate or defeat
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Examples
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"The very realm where life strives to assert supremacy" is of course the realm of art, and its acts of asserting "supremacy" -- of affirming and extending the reach of experience itself -- constitute the most meaningful "truth" we can discover.
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The novel deals with the real Jason Bourne and his attempt to regain "supremacy".
More Sequels: Fourth Jason Bourne Film on Track for 2010 « FirstShowing.net 2008
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If the cost of air supremacy is not paid in dollars, it may be paid in blood.
The Last Ace 2009
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The corporatist mentality no longer even has the empirical support that buttressed Berle's confidence in the power and long-term supremacy of large corporations.
Robert Teitelman: An Excursion With Adolf Berle Robert Teitelman 2011
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I think your earlier focus on parliamentary versus judicial supremacy is (correct but) off themark.
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Air supremacy is what enables us to send an elaborate fleet of machinery caterwauling over a targeted nation, such as Afghanistan or Iraq: the orchestrating AWACS (“Airborne Warning and Control System,” the flying surveillance-and-command center); precision bombers; attack planes, helicopters, and drones; ground support; rescue choppers; and the great flying tankers that keep them all fueled.
The Last Ace 2009
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In the Clerk's view, this supremacy is exercised, inter alia, through parliamentary committees.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Catholics will tell you that one of the proofs of Petrine and Papal supremacy is that Rome is the only patriarchate never to fall into heresy.
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If the struggle for commercial supremacy is profitable, continue it.
THE MANAGEMENT 2010
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A perpetual democratic supremacy is at risk because … they have a broad coalition?
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