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But characteristically and predominatingly, Sex is predicated of Humanity, where it is developed in its highest perfection; and in the same degree Gender in Grammar is, in predominance, confined to the Proper Nouns Substantive.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

But here is where both foes and friends go aground; both attempt to inject concepts of honour into transactions predominatingly, and perhaps exclusively, coloured by concepts of morals.

From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by Nathan, George Jean

We must remember, for example, that the purpose of the Old Testament is essentially and predominatingly religious.

From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl

The “pagan” poems are only largely pagan; the “Christian” predominatingly Christian.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

Modern economic socialism proposes simply to carry a step further our already predominatingly economic social organization by frankly recognizing the economic as the basis of all things in the social life.

From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)