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

Indeed, there seems to be, in many instances, a prepotent influence about a newly-arisen variety which gives it what one may call an unfair advantage over the normal descendants from the same stock.

From Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

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

The civilized theater has begun to come; the prepotent influence of the audience is recognized.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir