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Supremacy vs Paramountcy - What's the difference?

supremacy | paramountcy |

As nouns the difference between supremacy and paramountcy

is that supremacy is the quality of being supreme while paramountcy is the fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence.

supremacy

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being supreme.
  • Power over all others.
  • When used with a designation for a particular group, the assertion that the group in question is superior to or should rule over others.
  • paramountcy

    English

    Noun

  • 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 [...].