prepotent
Example Sentences
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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
If a father is prepotent, he may have a greater effect in producing the formed child than the mother has, and vice versa, as when a son closely resembles his father or his mother.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
The breeder should keep the prepotent sire and his offspring rather than the more perfect male, who fails to stamp his traits upon his get.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
The mark of this prepotent previous man is left on the house from cellar to attic.
From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
