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
Thirdly, prepotency of transmission, which may be confined to one sex, or be common to both sexes of the prepotent form.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
If a father is prepotent, he may have a greater effect in producing the formed child than the mother has, and vice versa, as when a son closely resembles his father or his mother.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
As offspring tend to resemble grandparents almost as much as parents, and as a line of close-bred ancestry is generally prepotent, so newly-originated varieties have always a tendency to reversion.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa
