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Definition of Supremacy
1. Noun. Power to dominate or defeat. "Mastery of the seas"
Specialized synonyms: Superiority, Transcendence, Transcendency
Generic synonyms: Ascendance, Ascendancy, Ascendence, Ascendency, Control, Dominance
Derivative terms: Dominate, Dominate, Master, Supremacist
Definition of Supremacy
1. n. The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.
Definition of Supremacy
1. Noun. The quality of being supreme. ¹
2. Noun. Power over all others. ¹
3. Noun. When used with a designation for a particular group, the assertion that the group in question is superior to or should rule over others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supremacy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supremacy
Literary usage of Supremacy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"Personal supremacy does not give a bound- Restric- less liberty of action either.
(Although the citizens of personal*" a State remain under its power when ..."
2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"As comprising the power of a State to exercise supreme authority over all persons
and things within its territory, sovereignty is territorial supremacy. ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"The distinction is apparent and useful, although internal independence is nothing
else than sovereignty comprising territorial supremacy, but viewed from a ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"And the construction of the royal supremacy which has been put upon it by Whig
writers, ... If the supremacy is to be so potent in stopping the mouths of ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Results of Napoleons supremacy. disposed them to see in Napoleon the Messiah ...
A survey of the period of the Napoleonic supremacy reveals the fact that, ..."
6. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"Parliament passed the act of supremacy, "That the King, our sovereign lord, his
heirs and successors, kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, ..."
7. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"Parlia- -ment passed the act of supremacy, "That the King, our sovereign lord,
his heirs and successors, kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, ..."
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