[f. ULTIM-ATE a.: see -ACY.] The quality or state of being ultimate.
1842. Sir W. Hamilton, Diss., in Reid’s Wks., II. 760. The simplicity, ultimacy, and incomprehensibility of our original apprehensions.
a. 1848. W. A. Butler, Hist. Anc. Philos. (1856), I. 161. The ultimacy of the laws of motion has been lately made the subject of disquisition.
1893. Fairbairn, Christ in Mod. Theol., II. II. iii. 430. As to the ultimacy of the will Calvin is explicit.
