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

Of the original stock, that order in which Dominant traits are prepotent is differentiating toward a male genus, however.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

We have here, therefore, either almost complete sterility between varieties of different colours, or a prepotent effect of pollen from a flower of the same colour, bringing about the same result.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

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)