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noun, plural pri·ma·cies for 2, 3.
1.
the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
2.
Also called primateship. English Ecclesiastics. the office, rank, or dignity of a primate.
3.
Roman Catholic Church. the jurisdiction of a bishop, as a patriarch, over other bishoprics, or the supreme jurisdiction of the pope as supreme bishop.
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Primacy
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Example Sentences
- The nervous, intense vitality of his line took primacy over everything else.
- So much for the primacy of independent thought and the life of the mind.
- The primacy of social responsibility had been replaced by the primacy of economic efficiency and the virtues of the free market.
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Word Origin & History
primacy
1382, from O.Fr. primacie, from M.L. primatia "office of a church primate" (1174), from L.L. primas (gen. primatis) "principal, chief, of the first rank" (see primate).
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