prevailingly

adv

prevailingly

adv

Etymology From prevailing + -ly.

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:

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