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supremacy
English
Etymology
From supreme +? -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?p??m?si/
- Hyphenation: su?prem?a?cy
Noun
supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)
- The quality of being supreme.
- Power over all others.
- (in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
- 2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press (?ISBN), page 139:
- Fighting a war against Hitler's Nazi ideology, with its doctrine of Aryan supremacy and its "final solution" to protect against an "inferior people," accentuated the final irony of an America fighting a racist ideology while trying to keep its own racist ideology intact.
- 2004, Andrew Michael Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, Mercer University Press (?ISBN), page 139:
- (in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? French: suprématie
- ? Polish: supremacja
- ? Portuguese: supremacia
- ? Romanian: suprema?ie
- ? Spanish: supremacía
- ? Galician: supremacía
Derived terms
- supremacist
- supremacism
Translations
References
- “supremacy”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
- supremacy at OneLook Dictionary Search
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importance
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French importance, from Medieval Latin importantia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?p??t?ns/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?p??t?ns/, [-?n?s]
Noun
importance (countable and uncountable, plural importances)
- The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
- significance or prominence.
- personal status or standing.
- Something of importance.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin importantia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.p??.t??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
importance f (plural importances)
- importance
- significance
Related terms
- important
Further reading
- “importance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- comprenait
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