Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With superior power or influence; so as to prevail.
- Prevalently; currently; generally; for the most part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb So as to prevail.
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- adverb Mainly,
predominantly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Farro is particularly spread in the Apennines central-southern areas and concerns prevailingly organic cultivations.
FARRO MINESTRONE WITH WINTER SQUASH AND GREENS Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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The texture is prevailingly full throughout, and often homorhythmic.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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Farro is particularly spread in the Apennines central-southern areas and concerns prevailingly organic cultivations.
Archive 2009-03-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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On the contrary, economic systems - like most complex and self-organized systems - are intrinsically evolutionary systems, which tend to develop, prevailingly toward levels of higher internal organization; though the possibility of involution processes - or even of catastrophic events - remains immanent ....
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Everything I have said about the phenomenology of sleep and sleep onset, of early childhood and of the ancient mind, make these cognitive states sound like prevailingly low-focus states.
The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994
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Wharton's prevailingly ironic narrative mode knits uneasily with such a resolution.
Wharton's Sharp Eye 2001
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Wharton's prevailingly ironic narrative mode knits uneasily with such a resolution.
Wharton's Sharp Eye 2001
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This prevailingly eastward march slowed down and halted at a first stationary point, reversed its direction for a time, and after a second stationary point resumed its direct motion.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968
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It is the pure, vital, German-dramatic poetry, which, piercing the tawdry veneer of culture and the prevailingly wretched appearances of our life, strikes fire from the bed-rock of spiritual life itself, and with its divining rod points to the golden veins in the foundations of the national character.
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Two things in it are prevailingly prominent: first, a noble nature; secondly, an extreme civilization, already faltering, turned to decline, expecting its fall.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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