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

By prepotent we mean having unusual power to transmit characters to offspring.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)

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)

Sheep have a similar latent tendency to become dark-coloured, and we have seen with what prepotent force a ram with a few black spots, when crossed with sheep of various breeds, coloured its offspring.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles