Meanings
nounprepollence (uncountable)
alternative prepollency
- archaicuncountableThe quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence.
Those who hold this uncomfortable and gloomy opinion, would do well to consider what such men as Cudworth, archbishop King, Hutcheson, and Balguy, have so strongly urged in confutation of this opinion of the prepollence of evil in the world.
1693, Joseph Warton, Note on Dryden's translation of Juvenal's Tenth Satire
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