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Definition of paramount:

  • (adjective) having superior power and influence | Of the highest importance

Sentence Examples:

French influence was paramount.

Absolute clearness is of paramount importance.

Drunkenness and debauchery reigned paramount.

One paramount necessity darkened all, however.

Materialistic interest has everywhere become paramount.

His ascendancy over her was paramount still.

The indolent side of his nature was paramount.

The New paramount trumpet and cornet method.

I was his undisputed queen and lady paramount.

Removing Gypsy was no longer the paramount issue.

Such a staring fact is paramount in sociological evidence.

This feeling, however unacknowledged, became paramount with him.

Her paramount desire has been for expiation and rest.

At these courts, the jester was paramount in influence.

Its contradiction and refutation were deemed matters of paramount importance.

The problem of hospitalization itself soon became of paramount importance.

The sages have prophesied paramount sovereignty for her husband.

However, Joe's interest in Roman history wasn't exactly paramount.

The perfect cleanliness of the kennel is of paramount importance.

They are absentees, with a paramount excuse for being so.

Besides, the paramount question of grub negatived such a procedure.

These friars gradually obtained a paramount influence over the Indians.

In construing a written Constitution, an inquiry into intent is paramount.

The triumph of American principles is paramount to your obligation to Elton.

Still his thoughts hovered anxiously about their one paramount object.

Francis had once reigned paramount in the vicarage as universal pet.

"The full dinner pail," said they, "is the paramount issue."

It levies and collects taxes from lands as the paramount owner.

He was at the mercy of emotions, obsessed by one paramount idea.

You have no vested rights paramount to the rights of the commonwealth.

As Hattie expounded prayer as exemplified through Sadie, one fact stands paramount.

The payment of tithes, that paramount duty of piety, was enjoined.

For the human soul is a theme as inexhaustible as it is paramount.

Yes, paramount over brotherly feeling and all that sort of thing.

His paramount ability was as a talker rather than as a fighter.

To the warlike Cherokee the event of a battle was not paramount.

That Ronnie was being kidnapped was the one idea of paramount importance.

Color is paramount, and its beauty obscures the incongruities of Oriental art.

"I am bound to hold my stepdaughter's interests paramount over every consideration."

Various causes have now conspired to render this a matter of paramount necessity.

The rectors, of course, must be paramount, and they might be trusted.

The old ideals were unshaken, but they no longer held paramount sway.

Whereas the one really important and paramount consideration in art is workmanship.

The paramount emphasis on security found among manual workers may be regrettable.

Everywhere beyond the narrow strip of the colonies the French were paramount.

His paramount desire was to seize his hat and make a furtive exit.

Where justice and good judgment reign paramount, there it is impious to remonstrate.

System paramount; disorganization cursed and banned as soon as it reared its head.

With him the moral aim was always paramount, the pecuniary aim subordinate.

All that was of her was of paramount interest and weighty importance.

That flax was of paramount importance in the family calculations just now.

While vested interests in this devilish thing remain paramount, we are partly paralyzed.

A long wakeful night is apt to distort many things of paramount interest.

My whims are to be paramount; my most transitory wish your chief desire.

The paramount question is how to organize the emancipated in their condition of freedom.

It is here that marked ware becomes of paramount importance for purposes of comparison.

Stability is the feature wherein rests the paramount reason for employing two octaves.

The preservation of his wife's incognito was undoubtedly a matter of paramount importance.

Their silken texture, delicate fragrance, and chaste look make them paramount among blossoms.

No paramount priesthood here; no secular power playing the part of the oppressor.

Her happiness seemed the thought paramount, her peace of mind his topmost concern.

What do you know about self-indulgence being 'paramount,' except in your own case, eh?

To those specializing in design, the study of Historic Style is of paramount importance.

The great and paramount distinction was between the freeman and the slave.

And still he was obsessed with the paramount considerations of "tariff" and "currency."

And something comic mingled with what my mother felt to be paramount tragedy.

And now the relations of husband and wife were mightily paramount over everything else.

There sat the paramount stockholder of the corporation over which he craved ultimate control.

No paramount feeling of compassionate agitation, no desire to help, heal and save emanates from him.

His chivalry prompted him to release her, but the claims of duty were paramount.

Is it not our paramount duty to set at rest forever the doctrine of secession?

Over the unscientific and the scientific minds of the Chinese these two are paramount.

With this idea paramount, she sat down in a high-backed porch rocker and waited.

The recognition is purely from comity, and not from any absolute or paramount obligation.

Untrained, it grows apace, overturning and strangling all opposition and asserting its paramount importance.

Yet even at this lowest depth of ignominy his paramount thought was his work.

Now we know that our bodies are mere flimsy shells, in which our souls are paramount.

Owing to the great range of an airship a thoroughly reliable engine is a paramount necessity.

A contest of paramount interest has just terminated; a parochial convulsion has taken place.

The love of art, gaiety, adventure, science, religion may be severally paramount at different times.

We must be ready, in certain critical cases, to regard disarmament as the paramount need.

It will certainly be my paramount duty; other cares must be made subservient to that.

The next matter of paramount importance is a consideration of the horoscope of the parties.

Their heredity or the intellectual and physical value of their ancestry is of paramount importance.

The love which she had believed herself indignantly to have cast out was still paramount.

Upon them devolved a duty of paramount importance, that of guarding the person of Napoleon.

The activity of the dead is now paramount, and threatens to paralyze original writing altogether.

"Do you play at being lords paramount here over the souls and bodies of your serfs?"

Permanence is, indeed, one characteristic which demonstrates the paramount excellence of all moral impressions.

Money in shrinking volume becomes the paramount object of commerce instead of the beneficent instrument.

I have aimed not to hamper myself, by attaching paramount importance to some particular character throughout.

This matter of efficient training of our Indian helpers is, I believe, a matter of paramount importance.

I inquired; for avarice and cupidity reigned, I am ashamed to own, paramount within my breast.

In most states this interest or dower is paramount to the claims of her husband's creditors.

Moreover, in all the hundred extraneous interests that are involved, his advice becomes of paramount importance.

Its main object is to make the South African Republic the paramount power in South Africa.

By that time French influence had acquired a paramount share in both of the border provinces.

Devotion to that being, open, almost ostentatious, was now a duty, a paramount and absorbing tie.

The institution of African slavery arrived upon the scene at length as the paramount political issue.

Both before and after Peter, the will and caprice of the ruling power was paramount.