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Primacy

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primacy
Christianity the office, rank, or jurisdiction of a primate or senior bishop or (in the Roman Catholic Church) the pope

Primacy 

priority, preeminent role, predominance, supremacy, or highest precedence, for example, the primacy of production of the means of production over production of the means of consumption.



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discovery of Judge Lynch (who, indeed, conceded it no primacy over the
In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.
Primitive man was a combinative beast, and because of it he rose to primacy over all the animals.
 
 
 
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