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Answer for the clue "The state of being paramount ", 11 letters:
paramountcy

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The doctrine of paramountcy is the legal principle that reconciles contradicting or conflicting laws in a federalist state, where both the central government, and the provincial or state governments, have the power to create laws in relation to the same ...

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n. the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority

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n. The fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence. (from 17th c.)

Usage examples of paramountcy.

In certain respects the dynasty remained faithful to ancient native religious practices but as rulers of a newly unified state, fighting China for paramountcy in Central Asia, they may have tried to use the foreign religion as a unifying political and civilising instrument.

Europeans who first saw them, the Melanesians seemed a wretched, barbarous race in the extreme, although there was much to admire in aspects of their social organization--in the paramountcy of kinship obligations for example, or the achievements of building, art and narrative.

That gashed hand was therefore another turning point, because it established the paramountcy of my life.

German successes both in the Balkans and Libya, two widely different types of terrain, prove once again the paramountcy of armoured forces supported by a powerful air force.

Corrupt, wise, weary old Earth fought with masked weapons, since only hidden weapons could maintain so ancient a sovereigntysovereignty which had long since lapsed into a titular paramountcy among the communities of mankind.