Paramountcy vs Paramountly - What's the difference?
paramountcy | paramountly |
The fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence.
*1902 , (William James), The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 228:
*:we saw this permanence to be true of the general paramountcy of the higher insight, even though in the ebbs of emotional excitement meaner motives might temporarily prevail [...].
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 203:
*:Both, they claim, were British spies, sent into Central Asia as part of a grand design for paramountcy there at the expense of Russia, whose influence they aimed to destroy.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 703:
*:Portuguese Church authorities often made things more difficult for non-Portuguese European missionaries by insisting on the paramountcy of their own culture and ecclesiastical jurisdiction [...].