superordinate
IPA: supɝˈɔrdʌnʌt
noun
- That which is superordinate.
- (linguistics) A hypernym.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to be superordinate.
adjective
- Greater in degree, rank or position.
- (logic) The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal quantified variable replaced by a specific instance.
- (linguistics, of a word or phrase) hypernymic
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Examples of "superordinate" in Sentences
- It became my superordinate goal to read every word that London had written.
- If G1 is superordinate to G2, then G1's differentiae will be a subset of G2's differentiae.
- However, what about children abuse - preventing such abuse seems to require laws superordinate to the property laws.
- The state structure of civil society has a particular regulative role, but not a superordinate role, among the societal spheres.
- Contrary to this, you suggest that the relative pronoun takes the case corresponding to its syntactic role in the superordinate clause.
- Public safety nets rely on the idea that a group or society is a superordinate entity for which individuals are morally obligated to sacrifice.
- One thing the couples in these good marriages have in common is a vision of the marriage as a "superordinate" entity -- something that is separate from and larger than its two parts.
- As the efficacious bearer and transmitter of the Divine Spirit of Love to mankind Jesus is "superordinate" to all men, and has in the eternal decree of God a merely ideal pre-existence.
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