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Prepotent

//pɹɪˈpoʊtənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.

    "To ordre his subiectes after true iustice / As a prepotent prince"

  2. 2
    Characterized by prepotency.

    "When one parent alone displays some of the newly-acquired and generally inheritable character, and the offspring do not inherit it, the cause may lie in the other parent having the power of prepotent transmission."

Etymology

From Latin praepotens.

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