hegemonical
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hegemonical (comparative more hegemonical, superlative most hegemonical)
- leading; controlling; predominant
- 1862, Nathaniel Culverwell, Of the Light of Nature:
- The principal and hegemonical power of the soul the Stoics situated in the heart
- 1973, Klaus Knorr, Power and Wealth:
- supremacy in an area that the hegemonical state controls fundamentally by coercive power
- 2005, Hawkling Lugine Yen, A Survey of Constitutional Development in China:
- the hegemonical princes crushed assassins and murderers, restored legitimate but displaced princes to power