prevailingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English prevailing

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English prevailingly

From prevailing + -ly.

Adverb

prevailingly (comparative more prevailingly, superlative most prevailingly)

1. Mainly, predominantly.
   • 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:

     Such places weren't strange to him when they took the form of bourgeois back parlours, a trifle ominously grey and grim from their north light, at watering-places prevailingly homes of humbug, or even when they wore some aspect still less, if not perhaps still more, insidious.