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

Of the original stock, that order in which Dominant traits are prepotent is differentiating toward a male genus, however.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

In this latter case the progeny both of crossed species and varieties retain for a long period a tendency to revert to their ancestors, especially to that one which is prepotent in transmission.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles

The child comes from and harks back to a remoter past; the adolescent is neo-atavistic, and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley