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prepollence

prepollence noun: the quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence.

Noun

prepollence (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The 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

Forms of prepollence

alternative formprepollency

Questions about prepollence

What does prepollence mean?
Prepollence means the quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence.
What part of speech is prepollence?
Prepollence is a noun.

Words near prepollence in the dictionary

  1. prepolishes
  2. prepolishing
  3. prepolitical
  4. prepolitically
  5. prepoll
  6. prepollence
  7. prepollency
  8. prepollent
  9. prepollents
  10. prepollex
  11. prepollices

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