Prevailingly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From prevailing + -ly.
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