Definition of Primacy

Primacy

The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.

The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.

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Primacy Quotations

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Sol LeWitt

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
Wislawa Szymborska

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
Johan Huizinga

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
Karl Lehmann

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Primacy Translations

primacy in German is Vorrang, Vorrangstellung, Vortritt

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