prevailingly

Word Origin & History

1590s, "vigorous;" 1680s, "widely accepted," present participle adjective from prevail (v.).

It is in the Presidency of Madras, but European influences have not greatly changed its prevailingly native aspect.

The character of these pieces is prevailingly sentimental, and the tempi were not so quick then as now.

In an industrial State one district may be prevailingly agricultural, another prevailingly labor, another prevailingly commercial.

States are large units and, except in farming regions, are not prevailingly of one interest.

Economic institutions in the modern civilized scheme of life are (prevailingly) institutions of the price system.

Prevailingly, she arrayed herself in flowers that ran all the shades from cream and lemon to yellow and orange.

Every student of philosophy will tell you that the world's thought was prevailingly deductive till the days of Francis Bacon.

But it may be doubted whether his tastes were prevailingly clerical; his poetry certainly was not.

These winds are prevailingly dry and clear, and the weather during the time they blow is fine.

His comments upon subjects which he discussed, and facts which he presented, were prevailingly fair, and very instructive.

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