Definition of Primacies

1. primacy [n] - See also: primacy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Primacies

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prilling tower
prillion
prills
prilocaine
prim
prim out
prim up
prima
prima(p)
prima ballerina
prima ballerinas
prima donna
prima donnas
prima facie
primacies (current term)
primacy
primacy effect
primacy effects
primadonna
primadonnas
primae donnae
primaeval
primage
primages
primal
primal cut
primal horde
primal hordes
primal scene

Literary usage of Primacies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ancient Facts and Fictions Concerning Churches and Tithes by Roundell Palmer Selborne (1888)
"CHAPTER VI FOURTH PERIOD THE primacies OF ODD AND DUNSTAN § 1. New Relations between England and the Continent IT has been seen that in Alfred's time ..."

2. Some Observations on Books and Libraries in General: And on "The Sacred by Frank Crane, Oriental Foundation, New York (1918)
"Slowly the eternal primacies of literature are formed. The great books of the past descend to us out of the grey dawn of the world, priests forever after ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The history of the primacies in the Middle Ages is largely concerned with ... The real primacies were at first those that did not bear the name. ..."

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