Paramount

(a.) Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.

(n.) The highest or chief.

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• I said he was right there--never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• However, if I get well over this folly, I will for the rest of my life reign lord paramount or nothing. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• In New York the question of permanency was of paramount importance, and the other contingencies were sure to arise as well as conditions more easy to imagine than to forestall. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I should very much liked to ha' joined you, Sir; but the gov'nor, o' course, is paramount. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• This was my duty; but there was another still paramount to that. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• But, even though threatened by famine, her fear of the plague was paramount; and her greatest care was to avoid her fellow creatures. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The rectors, of course, must be paramount, and they might be trusted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Pestilence reigned paramount even here. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• These feelings for a time were paramount; and, in obedience to them, I accompanied the rest towards Auxerre. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Never was wooer of wealthy bride so thoroughly absolved from the subaltern part, so inevitably compelled to assume a paramount character. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is my misfortune and habit, I know, to think of myself paramount to anybody else; but who is not like me in that respect? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Plague sat paramount the while, and laughed us to scorn. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Those interests are now paramount in this office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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