hegemonyn.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 29 Keeping our selues free from blame in this Aegemonie or Sufferaigntie of things growing vpon y^e earth.

1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xliv. 344 The headship, or hegemony, was in the hands of Athens.

1860 Times 5 May 9/2 No doubt it is a glorious ambition which drives Prussia to assert her claim to the leadership, or as that land of professors phrases it, the ‘hegemony’ of the Germanic Confederation.

1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. 278 Philip..claimed for Macedon the hegemony of Greece.

1887 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. VI. 41 A universal Republic under the guidance and hegemony of France.

1924 Nevada State Jrnl. 31 May 6/3 The Germans are preparing for this aero-chemical war by the realization in peace time of air hegemony.

1939 C. Headlam Diary 18 Mar. in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) iii. 152 I cannot see any stopping the German bid for world hegemony short of stopping it by force of arms.

1969 China Q. 38 172 Yugoslavia was the first to thwart the Kremlin's desired hegemony, Czechoslovakia only the latest.

1973 Times 12 June 7/4 (caption) A photograph..of a quotation from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung carved in a Hunan hillside. It reads: ‘Dig tunnels deep, store grain everywhere and never seek hegemony.’

2009 T. Footman Noughties ix. 134 They represented a potential challenge to the economic hegemony of North America, Western Europe and Japan.

1832 N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 817 France..has fought against all barbarians and against all hegemonies.

1919 G. B. Shaw Peace Conf. Hints vii. 106 As our interest in preventing a hegemony is not peculiar to us, we are always able to form an alliance against the hegemonist.

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iii. 119 So vast were the territories brought under the control of these four hegemonies that each individually probably came to control more effective power than the united efforts of the entire congeries of central States, the chung kuo, could command.

1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) xii. 157 Oyo was another military hegemony, based on cavalry power rather than on fire-arms.

1854 Northern Tribune 1 299 The ‘hegemony’ of Newcastle was partially disturbed by an attempt on the part of some capitalists to erect a ballast quay at Jarrow.

1864 Sporting Gaz. 19 Mar. 213/2 Two sportsmen more passionately fond of the Turf.., the country cannot boast of; and we may therefore well nigh see in them the two great rivals who wrestle for the hegemony.

1924 Amer. Mercury Apr. 423/2 An other wise inexplicable sensitiveness, are noticeable whenever the hegemony of the King's English is disputed.

1953 S. K. Langer Feeling & Form xii. 204 Dance, the art of the Stone Age, the art of primitive life par excellence, holds a hegemony over all art materials.

1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas Fascism & Dictatorship iii. i. 72 The inability of any class or class fraction to impose its hegemony is what characterizes the conjuncture of fascism.

1993 Guardian 19 Aug. ii. 2/4 A shift..away from the hegemony of the Wasps and the assimilated Jews and towards a city that is rapidly becoming more Catholic.

2010 N.Y. Times Mag. 16 May 64/2 So far only one measure has succeeded in challenging the hegemony of growth-centric thinking.

1969 R. A. Laferty Fourth Mansions i. 10 ‘Did you ever feel that there was a net cast over us and we were all held in this net by a hegemony of spiders as yet unidentified?’ ‘Those spiders are my reporters, Foley’.

1973 W. Percy in W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee (new ed.) p. xvi When he spoke of the ‘bottom rail on top’, he had in mind roughly the same folks as Faulkner's Snopeses,..an unholy hegemony of peckerwood politicians, a white hoi polloi keeping them in office.

1990 Vital Speeches 1 Aug. 616/1 You can see that things are changing around you and that the credo you cling to has some flaws but you can't imagine the end of the hegemony.

2009 Vanity Fair Nov. 200/2 An inversion of the outlook favored by the art-crit hegemony of his day, which tended to be more kindly disposed toward artists whose work depicted the turbulence and pain of the human condition.