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paramount | paramour |

As an adjective paramount

is supreme; highest; chief.

As an adverb paramour is

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As a noun paramour is

an illicit lover, either male or female.

paramount

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Supreme; highest; chief.
  • * (Francis Bacon)
    • A traitor paramount .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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  • Of the highest importance.

    • Synonyms

    * highest * utmost

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    paramour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * paramours

    Adverb

    (-)
  • *Chaucer
  • *:For par amour I loved her first ere thou.
  • *:
  • *:Is this trouthe said Palomydes / Thenne shall we hastely here of sire Tristram / And as for to say that I loue la Beale Isoud peramours I dare make good that I doo / and that she hath my seruyse aboue alle other ladyes / and shalle haue the terme of my lyf

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An illicit lover, either male or female.
  • * (rfdate), Macaulay:
    • The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour .

    Synonyms

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