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pri·ma·cy

(prī′mə-sē)

n. pl. pri·ma·cies

1. The state of being first or foremost.

2. Ecclesiastical The office, rank, or province of primate.

[Middle English primacie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin prīmātia, office of church primate, from Latin prīmās, prīmāt-, of first rank; see primate.]

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primacy

(ˈpraɪməsɪ)

n, pl -cies

1. the state of being first in rank, grade, etc

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity the office, rank, or jurisdiction of a primate or senior bishop or (in the Roman Catholic Church) the pope

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pri•ma•cy

(ˈpraɪ mə si)

n., pl. -cies.

1. the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.

2. the office, rank, or dignity of an ecclesiastical primate.

3. the jurisdiction of a bishop, as a patriarch, over other bishoprics, or the supreme jurisdiction of the pope as supreme bishop.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin prīmātia, alter. of Latin prīmātus (prīm(us) prime]

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Noun

primacy - the state of being first in importance

grandness, importance - a prominent status; "a person of importance"

primacy

noun supremacy, leadership, command, dominance, superiority, dominion, ascendancy, pre-eminence He saw this as a challenge to his primacy.

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Primat

primacy

[ˈpraɪməsɪ] N → primacía f

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primacy

[ˈpraɪməsi] (formal) n → primauté f

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primacy

(= supremacy) → Vorrang m; (= position) → Vorrangstellung f

(Eccl) → Primat nt or m

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primacy

[ˈpraɪməsɪ] n (frm) → supprema importanza

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That the legitimate relation of the tree to justice was no discovery of Judge Lynch (who, indeed, conceded it no primacy over the lamp-post and the bridge-girder) is made plain by the following passage from Morryster, who antedated him by two centuries:

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In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.

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Primitive man was a combinative beast, and because of it he rose to primacy over all the animals.

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Even though the body of scholarly literature on grand strategy is large and growing, in The End of Grand Strategy Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski have made an original, provocative, and contrarian contribution, arguing that Americans are inclined toward a "one-size-fits-all" grand strategy based on global primacy that has "little utility in the twenty-first century" (p.

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