predominate
verb (used without object)
to be the stronger or leading element or force.
predominatingly
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a word derived from
predominate.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Frederick Carl Eiselen
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 Charles A. (Charles Abram) Ellwood
In these days it almost seemed as if the girl in her predominatingly soft, serious mood were awaiting the declaration of his love.
From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer
