Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a paramount manner; as a matter of the highest importance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a paramount manner.

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  • adverb In a paramount manner.

Etymologies

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paramount +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • So everyone knows that it's paramountly (ph) important for the music to be there because the music is the future, you know.

    Christian Scott, Pouring Emotion Into Music 2010

  • Designed paramountly to accommodate the poor's needs for small and short-term capital, the Monte de Piedad doesn't discriminate among its borrowers, lending to anyone with collateral.

    Mexico's Monte De Piedad - More Than Household Finance 2007

  • Designed paramountly to accommodate the poor's needs for small and short-term capital, the Monte de Piedad doesn't discriminate among its borrowers, lending to anyone with collateral.

    Mexico's Monte De Piedad - More Than Household Finance 2007

  • VAUSE: The last time China's stock lost so much was on the day paramountly that Deng Xiaoping died, 10 years ago.

    CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2007 2007

  • Not only were the males, paramountly her father, able to do what they liked and always doing wonderful and mysterious things, but everything that the females did either had some relation to a male or was directly for, about, or on behalf of a male.

    This Freedom 1925

  • He thought of Essie Scofield, of all that she paramountly held and expressed, with a reluctance that had lately, almost within the past week, grown to resemble resentment, if not actual irritation.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • MAN1 communicates by articulation of sounds, and paramountly by the memory in the ear; nature by the impression of bounds and surfaces on the eye, and through the eye it gives significance and appropriation, and thus the conditions of memory, or the capability of being remembered, to sounds, smells, etc.

    On Poesy or Art 1909

  • One is, indeed, almost tempted to say that he is paramountly a poet, to whom the supplementary gift of musical speech has been extravagantly vouchsafed.

    Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

  • What was at that time even more cheering to MacDowell, who had not yet come to regard himself as paramountly a composer, was Liszt's praise of his piano playing.

    Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

  • One is, indeed, almost tempted to say that he is paramountly a poet, to whom the supplementary gift of musical speech has been extravagantly vouchsafed.

    Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

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