prevailingly

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adverb

Mainly, predominantly.

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Meanings

adverbprevailingly (comparative more prevailingly, superlative most prevailingly)

comparative more prevailingly · superlative most prevailingly

  1. Mainly, predominantly.

    Such places weren't strange to him when they took the form of bourgeois back parlours, a trifle ominously grey and grim from their north light, at watering-places prevailingly homes of humbug, or even when they wore some aspect still less, if not perhaps still more, insidious.

    1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl

Origin

From prevailing + -ly.

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Cite this entry
APA

prevailingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prevailingly

MLA

“prevailingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prevailingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prevailingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prevailingly.

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