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| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : pri-vey-ling |
| Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈveɪ lɪŋ |
Definition of prevailingly
Origin :- 1590s, "vigorous;" 1680s, "widely accepted," present participle adjective from prevail (v.).
- As in principally : adv mainly
- As in universally : adv generally
- It is in the Presidency of Madras, but European influences have not greatly changed its prevailingly native aspect.
- Extract from : « A Tour of the Missions » by Augustus Hopkins Strong
- The character of these pieces is prevailingly sentimental, and the tempi were not so quick then as now.
- Extract from : « The Voice in Singing » by Emma Seiler
- In an industrial State one district may be prevailingly agricultural, another prevailingly labor, another prevailingly commercial.
- Extract from : « Behind the Mirrors » by Clinton W. Gilbert
- States are large units and, except in farming regions, are not prevailingly of one interest.
- Extract from : « Behind the Mirrors » by Clinton W. Gilbert
- Economic institutions in the modern civilized scheme of life are (prevailingly) institutions of the price system.
- Extract from : « The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays » by Thorstein Veblen
- Prevailingly, she arrayed herself in flowers that ran all the shades from cream and lemon to yellow and orange.
- Extract from : « Angel Island » by Inez Haynes Gillmore
- Every student of philosophy will tell you that the world's thought was prevailingly deductive till the days of Francis Bacon.
- Extract from : « Materials and Methods of Fiction » by Clayton Hamilton
- But it may be doubted whether his tastes were prevailingly clerical; his poetry certainly was not.
- Extract from : « From Chaucer to Tennyson » by Henry A. Beers
- These winds are prevailingly dry and clear, and the weather during the time they blow is fine.
- Extract from : « Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology » by Robert DeCourcy Ward
- His comments upon subjects which he discussed, and facts which he presented, were prevailingly fair, and very instructive.
- Extract from : « Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism » by Allen Putnam
Synonyms for prevailingly
- above all
- basically
- before anything else
- cardinally
- chiefly
- completely
- comprehensively
- customarily
- dominantly
- eminently
- endlessly
- entirely
- especially
- essentially
- extensively
- first and foremost
- first of all
- for the most part
- fundamentally
- generally
- importantly
- in the first place
- in the main
- largely
- materially
- mostly
- notably
- particularly
- peculiarly
- predominantly
- preeminently
- prevailingly
- prevalently
- primarily
- substantially
- superlatively
- supremely
- to a great degree
- totally
- universally
- vitally
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