Definition of "paramountcy" [paramountcy]

• The condition or rank of being paramount. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "This includes fixing certain elements of the now-abrogated 1997 constitution, including voting reform and most likely deleting the provision that provides paramountcy to interests of the indigenous Fijian community over those of other ethnic communities."
• "The Commission determined that the paramountcy of the Bakwena Ba"
• "It concluded that the amaRharhabe paramountcy was not a kingship."