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/prɪvˈeɪlɪŋ/ /privˈeɪlɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Prevailing adj.

Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive. "Saints shall assist thee with prevailing prayers."

Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.

Synonyms: Syn. See Prevalent.

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Etymology of 'Prevailing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prevailing" Quotes from Famous Books

... a coat of mail, Which was of a fish's scale, That when his foe should him assail, No point should be prevailing: His rapier was a hornet's sting: It was a very dangerous thing, For if he chanced to hurt the King, It ...

— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

... and repeated, as he opened convulsively his other hand, "The gold, Sibyll, the gold! Why didst thou hide it from me?" speedily convinced her that her father's mind was under the influence of the prevailing malady that made all its weakness and ...

— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... such man as he could walk in high success the streets of any other country in the world; for that would only have been a logical assurance to him of the correct adaptation of his labours to the prevailing taste, and of his being strictly and peculiarly ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... aesthetic bias appears in the moral sphere. Utilitarians have attempted to show that the human conscience commends precisely those actions which tend to secure general happiness and that the notions of justice and virtue prevailing in any age vary with its social economy and the prizes it is able to attain. And, if due allowance is made for the complexity of the subject, we may reasonably admit that the precepts of obligatory morality bear this relation to the general ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... a good education at an academy at Newington, young De Foe, before he had attained his twenty-first year, commenced his career as an author, by writing a pamphlet against a very prevailing sentiment in favour of the Turks who were at that time laying siege to Vienna. This production, being very inferior to those of his maturer years, was very little read, and the indignant author, despairing of success with his pen, had recourse to the sword; or, as he termed it, when boasting ...

— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe

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