prevailment

noun

prevailment

noun

Etymology From prevail + -ment.

1

Obsolete prevalence; superior influence or efficacy

  • messengers Of strong preuailment in vnhardned youthc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

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