Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Supremeness; supremacy.

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

  • noun obsolete Supremacy.

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  • noun obsolete supremacy

Etymologies

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Compare Latin supremitas.

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Examples

  • However Fisher resigned over the Dardanelles fiasco and this coupled with Antwerp, the Dunkirk circus, the apparent loss of paramount naval supremity and Gallipoli all forced Churchill to resign.

    Eraser Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Luxury has arisen as the way you tell who is who, you know, luxury is the basis of the Joneses's rise to class supremity, so keeping up with them is now a sport of the collecting of luxuries.

    The Dance of the Infidels The Daily Growler 2006

  • The Nazi stalked off, defeated in his quest for cheese-flavored cracker supremity.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2004

  • Do you know what it is never to have felt the supremity of the love token?

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

  • That hour at the entrance to Deception Pass had been the climax of her suffering -- the flood of her wrath -- the last of her sacrifice -- the supremity of her love -- and the attainment of peace.

    Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905

  • An ineffable and exquisite smile wreathed her lips, dreamy, sad, sensuous, the supremity of unconscious happiness.

    To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905

  • A mediocrity, not disagreeable, always rules; supremity has been, is, and always will be the stick in the riffle around which the little whirlpool will always centre.

    The Common Law 1899

  • She was young and beautiful, with dark, oriental features, and a bearing which aimed at supremity of arrogance.

    Veranilda George Gissing 1880

  • It was a foolish thought, of course; Mr. Lovel was quite aware of the supremity of folly involved in it.

    The Lovels of Arden 1875

  • Dunkirk circus, the apparent loss of paramount naval supremity and Gallipoli all forced

    Professor Strange admin 2010

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