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prepollency

prepollency is the alternative form of prepollence.

Meaning of prepollence

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

Questions about prepollency

What is prepollency the alternative form of?
Prepollency is the alternative form of prepollence.

Words near prepollency in the dictionary

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

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