Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who believes that a certain group is or should be supreme.
 
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- noun   A person who advocates the 
supremacy of one particular group over all others 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or race over all others
 
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Examples
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So if you believe you race is weak, how can you be described as a supremacist?
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To me, this smacks of a kind of supremacist attitude.
It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity... 2008
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He's on record as complaining about all languages other than English being used in Cardiff, yet he manages to say Welsh speakers are 'supremacist' because they'd like two rather than one language.
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The critic Terry Eagleton talks to the NS about the "supremacist" outlook of Martin Amis, and the new mood of student radicalism in Britain's universities.
New Statesman 2010
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One vicar declared that the mosque proposal was a 'supremacist' act; another warned it was a 'political statement' rather than a religious one by the Islamic community.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Now, the BJP can reasonably be approximated as "Hindu nationalist", but it is gratuitous for the FT to describe it as a Hindu "supremacist" without justifying the label.
The Acorn 2009
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Now, the BJP can reasonably be approximated as "Hindu nationalist", but it is gratuitous for the FT to describe it as a Hindu "supremacist" without justifying the label.
The Acorn 2009
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Now, the BJP can reasonably be approximated as "Hindu nationalist", but it is gratuitous for the FT to describe it as a Hindu "supremacist" without justifying the label.
The Acorn 2009
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Now, the BJP can reasonably be approximated as "Hindu nationalist", but it is gratuitous for the FT to describe it as a Hindu "supremacist" without justifying the label.
The Acorn 2009
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Now, the BJP can reasonably be approximated as "Hindu nationalist", but it is gratuitous for the FT to describe it as a Hindu "supremacist" without justifying the label.
The Acorn 2009
 
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