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
But, like their parents, in some, the Dominant, in others, the Recessive traits are prepotent.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
On the other hand, the mother's traits, prepotent in the development of daughters, will inhibit in these and diminish the strength and stature of their paternal inherences.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
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
