noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
moral superiority (= the idea that you are morally right and other people are not )
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He connects high social class with moral superiority.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
intellectual
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The revolutionary intelligentsia became fanatically convinced of its own exclusive moral and intellectual superiority .
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I at once sensed the physical austerity and the quality of social and intellectual superiority characteristic of the best public schools.
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The intellectual form of superiority was the one most accessible to me both at home and at school.
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But, we are bound to add, its intellectual superiority is by no means plain.
male
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Machismo is an exaggerated cult of virility which expresses itself in male assertions of superiority over females, and competition between men.
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These dichotomies can be seen as a way of legitimizing both male superiority and the abuse of science.
military
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Despite the military superiority of the government forces, the rebels continued to hold on to territory in the south.
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But none of this would have succeeded without a fourth and crucial ingredient, military superiority .
moral
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Pip now falls into a snobbish habit of connecting high social status with moral superiority .
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Underlying this hostility was a profound belief in the ethical and moral superiority of collective welfare provision.
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Serving large helpings, I ate nothing myself and my abstinence was only another proof of my moral superiority .
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Pleasure will be an adult privilege, a mark of economic power, class status and moral superiority .
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In one area, however, she does come into her own, since she has spiritual strength and moral superiority .
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Of Canon Wheeler's moral superiority to herself she was unconvinced.
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The preservationists, pinning their faith to moral superiority and persuasive argument, were beaten back every time.
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Albert has no doubts about the moral and social superiority of the latter.
numerical
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With their numerical superiority , they should have shown more enterprise.
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Each time, the opponents possessed a numerical superiority in men, frequently a very large one.
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It is a story of courage and of improvisation that made a nonsense of the enemy's numerical and material superiority .
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The loss of numerical superiority by protestants would result in the collapse of their statelet.
racial
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Swiney proposed that women's racial superiority was evidenced both by their physical and mental capabilities and in their internal cellular composition.
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The Holocaust shows what happened when the Western doctrine of racial superiority was taken to its ultimate extreme.
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I believe that the major discontinuity lies in the discursive forms through which positions of racial superiority are constructed.
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One of these beliefs may be racial superiority , but does not have to be.
social
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I at once sensed the physical austerity and the quality of social and intellectual superiority characteristic of the best public schools.
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It is not my experience that dominant males have ever had too much difficulty accepting their social superiority .
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Albert has no doubts about the moral and social superiority of the latter.
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Coercive reform is associated with groups that feel threatened, with groups that feel their social superiority is being challenged or diminished.
technological
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Two of the attacking aircraft were destroyed in an engagement which underlined the technological superiority of the allied weapons systems.
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The United States overestimated its technological superiority and underestimated the nationalist passion of its enemy.
■ NOUN
air
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A big effort was mounted against airfields, radars and anti-aircraft batteries in an attempt to gain air superiority .
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How were those Independent Companies to operate from a ship as their base if the enemy had air superiority ?
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Last year we were reminded of those epic days when Fighter Command denied the Luftwaffe air superiority in the skies over Britain.
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Furthermore, the need to win air superiority over the battlefield was as vital as ever.
■ VERB
assert
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The new pope did not share the general goodwill towards Frederick, and wanted to assert the superiority of pope over emperor.
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There, Arazi asserted his superiority , prompting Corals to quote him 4-1 to complete the Kentucky-Epsom Derby double.
demonstrate
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Thirdly in the eyes of the regime, victory demonstrates the superiority of Marxist ethics over the bourgeois variety.
prove
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He held his portable telephone like a shield, it proved his power and superiority .
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They proved their superiority every day by handling risk better than the rest of the risk-taking world.
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Western propaganda continued to embarrass the Communists by loudly proclaiming that the flow of refugees proved the superiority of capitalism.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assert your rights/independence/superiority etc
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And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
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Athens asserted her rights over her citizens temporarily exiled, as she did over those at home and liable for service.
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But she sought not so much to break a taboo as to assert her independence from the male yoke.
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Mrs Armitage's heir is already asserting his rights in the matter but that is not my concern.
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Power gives us the ability to control, to choose and to assert our independence.
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Stickers are available throughout the county to help squeezed out pedestrians assert their rights.
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You need to be selective and judge when it is appropriate to assert your rights.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In other words, Schott gives smart folks the air of superiority they paid all that college tuition to obtain.
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It dramatized the superiority of ironclad warships over wooden ones.
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Machismo is an exaggerated cult of virility which expresses itself in male assertions of superiority over females, and competition between men.
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The superiority of the Macintosh system would win converts.
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The feeling of inferiority is defensively turned into a feeling of superiority .
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The symbols had a tinge of feminine superiority , an aura of vast power that was taken for granted.
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Thirdly in the eyes of the regime, victory demonstrates the superiority of Marxist ethics over the bourgeois variety.