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nounthe state of being first in importancetype of:
Definition that contains primacy
- anabaptism a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state
- arianism heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son
- eremitism monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience