prepotent

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Without these most prepotent needs met, people do not even get an opportunity for further growth as a human.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2017

Perhaps not since the full-blown Garbo has the old world offered to the new such a prepotent image of the eternal feminine as can be seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell.

From Time Magazine Archive

Considered fundamentally, then, it is by the operation of an insoluble mystery that life on earth is evolved, species differentiated, and mind unfolded, from their prepotent elements in the immeasurable past.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

And, of course, the more primitive a type is, the more prepotent it is.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop

When distinguishable individuals of the same family, or races, or species are crossed, we see that the one is often prepotent over the other in transmitting its own character.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles