Meanings
adjectiveprævailing (comparative more prævailing, superlative most prævailing)
comparative more prævailing · superlative most prævailing
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of prevailing.
And I wiſh I could ſay, that this was not, in ſome degree, the prævailing turn of our age and nation.
1756, George Benson, History of the First Planting of the Christian Religion, page 381
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of prævail
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