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

Therefore to-day, as well as in the past, I carefully avoid warlike preparations, brigandish masquerades or any escort of a prepotent or menacing appearance.

From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone

Secondly, seed should be used from plants which have been proven to produce seed, which will develop into plants like themselves or are strongly prepotent.

From Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by Tracy, W. W. (William Warner)

The minute a stud dog, perfect in himself, is prepotent to impress upon his offspring a defect in his ancestry, discard him at once.

From The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Axtell, Edward