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

A great number of fine and capable persons must be failing to develop, failing to tell, under the shadow of this too prepotent monarchy.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The mark of this prepotent previous man is left on the house from cellar to attic.

From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The child comes from and harks back to a remoter past; the adolescent is neo-atavistic, and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley