Meanings
adjectiveprævalent (comparative more prævalent, superlative most prævalent)
comparative more prævalent · superlative most prævalent
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of prevalent.
Nature therefore would præsently work the more prævalent way, if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restraine her.
1806, Charles Symmons, John Milton quoted in The Prose Works of John Milton; page 49
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