prævaling

comparative more prævaling · superlative most prævaling

1. obsoleteObsolete form of prevailing.

   I HOPE this Interruption may præſume ſome Prætenſions of a Pardon, after You have been pleas’d to conſider the Prævaling Motives of my many Obligations.

   1705, [Lewis] Maidwell, An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education. […], London: […] S. B. and J. B.

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   He and Montrose perfectly hate the prævaling party in Scotland; yet the governing party had much strenthened the hands of Montrose by makeing thire King be received by them, whose commission to Montrose by that is more authenticall.

   1649, The Memoirs of James, Marquis of Montrose, 1639-1650, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York, published 1893, page 253

   […]; and that in the Canon Law, Non firmatur tractu temporis quod de jure ab initio non ſubſiſtit, there being no Cuſtome of ſuch prævaling authority, ut aut Rationem vincat, aut Legem, as the Emperor well determines.

   1661, Jo[hn] Stephens, An Historical Discourse, Briefly Setting Forth the Nature of Procurations, and How They Were Anciently Paid, with the Reason of Their Payment; and Somewhat Also of Synodals and Pentecostals: with an Appendix in Answer to an Opposer, London: […] R. Hodgkinson, page 26