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What does primacy mean?

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Noun
  1. The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.
  2. (archaic) excellence; supremacy.
  3. (religion) The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church
  4. (religion) the office or dignity of an archbishop
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Indeed, such transcendent realms still possess, for many of us, a clear primacy over the earthly world.
This bidirectional approach to the data allows the investigation of important issues while maintaining the primacy of the actual data.
Christ's role as the Justifier takes primacy over that of Christ as Second Adam or the sacrificial lamb of the atonement.
The primacy of maximum rentable square footage over city planning and architecture is not unique to this city.
The primacy of the vascular mesodermic network could explain facts not understood on a neural basis.
Ironically, the unchallenged primacy of the supreme leader is also the saving grace of communist ideology.

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