supremity

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English

Etymology

From supreme +‎ -ity, compare Latin suprēmitās.

Noun

supremity (countable and uncountable, plural supremities)

  1. (archaic) Supremacy.
    • 1904, George Gissing, chapter 12, in Veranilda:
      She was young and beautiful, with dark, oriental features, and a bearing which aimed at supremity of arrogance.
    • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 23, in Riders of the Purple Sage , New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
      :
      That hour at the entrance to Deception Pass had been the climax of her suffering—the flood of her wrath—the last of her sacrifice—the supremity of her love—and the attainment of peace.
    • 1931, G. Wilson Knight, chapter 8, in The Imperial Theme:
      The values of War or Empire and Love are ever twin supremities in Shakespeare.