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paramountcy|ˈpærəmaʊntsɪ|
Also paramouncy.
[f. paramount + -cy: paramouncy is formally more analogical; cf. tenant, -ancy, frequent, -ency.]
The condition or status of being paramount.
1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 90 And add to her Paramouncy of renown. a1834Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1849) I. 278 If it were possible to lessen the paramountcy of Volpone himself. 1890W. Wallace Life Schopenhauer 181 That metaphysical doctrine of the essential paramountcy of the will. 1897H. M. Stanley in 19th Cent. Apr. 513 British Paramouncy over the S. African Republic is acknowledged in the [Conventions of 1881 and 1884].
Add:b. spec. The supremacy of the British Crown as acknowledged by the Indian Princes during the British raj. Obs. exc. Hist.
1820D. Ochterlony Let. 21 Mar. in E. Thompson Making of Indian Princes (1943) xlv. 283, I hope His Lordship will in Virtue of his Power & Paramountcy forbid all future Invasions of Surhoie & fix himself a Sum which the Rajah must take. 1929Rep. Indian States Comm. i. 14 in Parl. Papers 1928–29 (Cmd. 3302) VI. 1 The paramountcy of the Crown acting through its agents dates from the beginning of the nineteenth century when the British became the de facto sole and unquestionable Paramount Power in India. 1947Sun (Baltimore) 9 June 10/1 Simultaneous with the assumption of dominion status by Hindustan and Pakistan, ‘paramountcy’ will lapse. 1962P. M. Scott Birds of Paradise iii. i. 153 Independence for British India would mean the end of paramountcy, the end of treaties the British no longer had the means to adhere to. 1985P. Ziegler Mountbatten iii. xxx. 387 When paramountcy lapsed, he replied, the States could do as they wished, but they could not enter the Commonwealth as Dominions. |