prepotent
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Without these most prepotent needs met, people do not even get an opportunity for further growth as a human.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 2017
Perhaps not since the full-blown Garbo has the old world offered to the new such a prepotent image of the eternal feminine as can be seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Considered fundamentally, then, it is by the operation of an insoluble mystery that life on earth is evolved, species differentiated, and mind unfolded, from their prepotent elements in the immeasurable past.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
Why is it that the longings, the hopes, the disappointments, the desperate aspirations, and the passionate loves of little human hearts should cause to their possessors such prepotent commotions, such poignant qualms?
From Hints for Lovers by T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold) Haultain
Internal secretion traits are inherited, and variations in heredity are essentially the structural representation of the resultant of a parallelogram of forces exerted by each of the parental prepotent glands.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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