English edit

Etymology edit

prevailing +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

prevailingly (comparative more prevailingly, superlative most prevailingly)

  1. Mainly, predominantly.
    • 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:
      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.