Meanings
adjectiveprevailent (comparative more prevailent, superlative most prevailent)
comparative more prevailent · superlative most prevailent
- alternativenonstandardAlternative form of prevalent.
They carry their respect for it very far; and this respect for the beard is equally prevailent amongst the Turks, and all the Christians of the East.
1797, Robert Heron, A Collection of Late Voyages and Travels, page 237
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