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Prevailing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Prevail
v. i.
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To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.
Prevail
v. i.
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To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day.
Prevail
v. i.
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To persuade or induce; -- with on, upon, or with; as, I prevailedon him to wait.
Prevailing
a.
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Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.
Prevailing
a.
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Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.
Prevailingly
adv.
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So as to prevail.
Prevailment
n.
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Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy.
Prevalence
n.
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The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
Prevalency
n.
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See Prevalence.
Prevalent
a.
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Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.
Prevalent
a.
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Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
Prevalently
adv.
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In a prevalent manner.
Prevaricated
imp. & p. p.
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Prevaricating
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Prevaricate
Prevaricate
v. i.
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To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.
Prevaricate
v. i.
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To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
Prevaricate
v. i.
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To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Prevaricate
v. t.
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To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
Prevarication
n.
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The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
Prevarication
n.
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A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
Prevarication
n.
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The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
Prevarication
n.
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A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Prevaricator
n.
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One who prevaricates.
Prevaricator
n.
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A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.
Prevaricator
n.
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One who betrays or abuses a trust.
Preve
v. i. & i.
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To prove.
Preve
n.
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Proof.
Prevenance
n.
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A going before; anticipation in sequence or order.
Prevenancy
n.
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The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness.