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English
Adjective
prevailent (comparative more prevailent, superlative most prevailent)
- (now nonstandard) Alternative form of prevalent
1797, Robert Heron, A Collection of Late Voyages and Travels, page 237:They carry their respect for it very far; and this respect for the beard is equally prevailent amongst the Turks, and all the Christians of the East.