What does prevailingly mean?
Prevailingly means Mainly, predominantly..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
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.
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Prevailingly means Mainly, predominantly..
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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.
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