primacy
IPA: prˈaɪmʌsi
noun
- The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.
- (archaic) Excellence; supremacy.
- (religion) The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church.
- (religion) The office or dignity of an archbishop.
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Examples of "primacy" in Sentences
- Claims of primacy or superiority.
- The primacy of unconscious skills.
- Currency has primacy over antecedence.
- But that does not give the name primacy.
- The primacy of the body, not the primacy of perception.
- Free recall often displays evidence of primacy and recency effects.
- He was holding the primacy for a nearly unrivaled thirty six years.
- The council of 681 assured to the archbishop of Toledo the primacy of Spain.
- Additionally, they reasserted the Catholic principle of primacy of conscience.
- A belief in the primacy of mind is a ubiquitous element in the history of ideas.