Supremacy vs Ultramontane - What's the difference?
supremacy | ultramontane |
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.
(theology) respecting the supremacy of the Pope.
* 1730 [1728], , The History of the Council of Constance , vol. 1, trans. Stephen Whatley,
* 1910 [August 13, 1800], , Houghton Mifflin,
* 2010 , September 12, Kevin McKenna, "Save Catholicism? The pope needs a miracle," '', [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/12/catholicism-christianity-pope-benedict]:
From the other side of a mountain range, particularly the Alps.
* 1835 , , vol. 2,
* 1905 , , The Penetration of Arabia: a Record of the Development of Western Knowledge Concerning the Arabian Peninsula , publ. Alston Rivers,
* 2004 , April 4, Jonathan Raban, "Deference to nature keeps Seattle from becoming world-class city," , [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20040404&slug=raban04]:
As nouns the difference between supremacy and ultramontane
is that supremacy is the quality of being supreme while ultramontane is someone who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.As an adjective ultramontane is
(theology) respecting the supremacy of the pope.supremacy
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(en-noun)ultramontane
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(en adjective)pg. ix:
- 'Tis no wonder that a Council which had declar'd it?elf ?uperior to the Popes, which had undertaken to try, and even to depo?e them, and had given ?uch great Blows to the Privileges, and to the Authority of the Cardinals, was not relith'd by the Court of Rome'', nor approv'd of by the Popes or tlieir Divines, nor by the ''Ultramontane Canonists.
pg. 144-145:
- It was by becoming a Catholic that I pacified the Vendee, and a Mussulman that I established myself in Egypt; it was by becoming ultramontane that I won over public opinion in Italy.
- My friend, a Scottish newspaper chief, has spent half a lifetime gliding across some of Fleet Street's more ultramontane and unreasonable titles.
pg. 263-264:
- He was slenderly provided with means for his ultramontane journey; and he resolved to save all he could in Italy, that he might not be restricted when among foreigners.
pg. 231:
- A march of about forty miles from Sohar up wadys, with intermittent water in their beds, brought his party to the frontier of the Batina, and by a low pass (i860 feet) it crossed the dividing ridge into the ultramontane province, Dahira.
- Whatever their physics, the spectacular ultramontane sunsets are an important part of Seattle's claim to be "a flower of geography" — as Henry James called the city in 1907, placing it in the company of Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Naples, Sydney, and San Francisco.
