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hegemony
(hiːˈdʒɛmənɪ, ˈhɛdʒiːmənɪ, ˈhiː-; or with g hard)
[ad. Gr. ἡγεµονία, f. ἡγεµών leader. Cf. F. hégémonie.]
Leadership, predominance, preponderance; esp. the leadership or predominant authority of one state of a confederacy or union over the others: originally used in reference to the states of ancient Greece, whence transferred to the German states, and in other modern applications.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 29 Keeping our selues free from blame in this Aegemonie or Sufferaigntie of things growing vpon y⊇ earth. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 278 Philip..claimed for Macedon the hegemony of Greece. 1847Grote Greece ii. xliv. (1862) IV. 16 The headship, or hegemony, was in the hands of Athens. 1860Times 5 May 9/2 No doubt it is a glorious ambition which drives Prussia to assert her claim to the leadership, or as that land of professors phrases it, the ‘hegemony’ of the Germanic Confederation. 1887Lecky Eng. in 18th C. VI. 41 A universal Republic under the guidance and hegemony of France. |