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prevailingly

prevailingly adverb: mainly, predominantly.

Adverb

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

Forms of prevailingly

comparativemore prevailingly
superlativemost prevailingly

Origin of prevailingly

From prevailing + -ly.

Questions about prevailingly

What does prevailingly mean?
Prevailingly means mainly, predominantly.
What part of speech is prevailingly?
Prevailingly is an adverb.

Words near prevailingly in the dictionary

  1. prevailing parties
  2. prevailing party
  3. prevailing upon
  4. prevailing wind
  5. prevailing winds
  6. prevailingly
  7. prevailingness
  8. prevailment
  9. prevailments
  10. prevails
  11. prevails upon

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