prevailingly
English
Etymology
prevailing + -ly
Adverb
prevailingly (comparative more prevailingly, superlative most prevailingly)
- Mainly, predominantly.
- 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:
- 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.
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