Definition of "palmary" [pal•ma•ry]

• Of first-rate importance; principal; excellent: a palmary truth. (adjective)

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• ""palmary" -- the prevalence of episcopacy as a recognized institution -- we may say boldly that all the facts point the other way."
• "But let us examine this principle a little more attentively—for it is the palmary one."
• "Macarius the Eucharist was a palmary argument against Nestorianism."