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supremacy
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supremacy noun ascendancy, authority, chieftaincy, command, control, direction, dominatio, domination, dominion, governance, headship, highest posiiion, importance, influence, leadership, lordship, masterdom, mastership, mastery, omnipotence, power, precedence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, primacy, rule, scepter, sovereignty, superintendence, superiority, supervision, supreme authority, supremeness, sway, transcendency, triumph, upperhand, victory
Associated concepts: Supremacy Clause
See also: advantage, authority, capacity, dominance, dominion, eminence, force, hegemony, importance, influence, ownership, possession, power, precedence, predominance, primacy, priority, regime, significance, strength

SUPREMACY. Sovereign dominion, authority, and preeminence; the highest state. In the United States, the supremacy resides in the people, and is exercises by their constitutional representatives, the president and congress. Vide Sovereignty.



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The golfer is Tom Watson, who was, in the interregnum between the supremacies of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, the greatest player in the world.
Golf balls: fighting Lou Gehrig's Disease on the PGA Tour by Rapoport, Ron / Washington Monthly
At times this attitude results in some strain, as when he interprets Milton's often-deplored reservation in Areopagitica: "I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstitions, which as it exterpats all religious and civill supremacies, so it self should be exterpat, provided first that all charitable and compassionat means be used to win and regain the weak and the misled.
Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader by Low, Anthony / Renaissance Quarterly
At times this attitude results in some strain, as when he interprets Milton's often-deplored reservation in Areopagitica: "I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstitions, which as it exterpats all religious and civill supremacies, so it self should be exterpat, provided first that all charitable and compassionat means be used to win and regain the weak and the misled.
Milton's House of God: The Invisible and Visible Church by Low, Anthony / Renaissance Quarterly
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