paramountcyn.

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 90 And add to her Paramouncy of renown.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 773 Sound on the other hand is Light under the power or paramountcy of Gravitation.

1890 W. Wallace Life Schopenhauer 181 That metaphysical doctrine of the essential paramountcy of the will.

1897 H. M. Stanley in 19th Cent. Apr. 513 British Paramouncy over the S. African Republic is acknowledged in the [Conventions of 1881 and 1884].

1950 Archivum Linguisticum 2 ii. 99 Paramountcy of the predicate may also be seen in Gilyak..where d′ (t′) is not a verb, but a syntaxeme, indicating predication.

1993 Times 2 Nov. 37/3 The Act was a watershed. It established the paramountcy of the child's welfare as the sole and overriding principle on care proceedings.

2001 Scotsman (Nexis) 14 Dec. 16 They are going to have to reconcile their religion with the evolution of secular states, parliamentary democracy and the paramouncy of individual rights.

1820 D. 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.

1929 Rep. Indian States Comm. i. 14 in Parl. Papers 1928–9 (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.

1962 P. 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.

1985 P. 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.