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15 words match “PREVALENCE”

PREVALENCE n.
, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him. Clarendon.
IMPREVALENCE; IMPREVALENCY n.
Want of prevalence. [Obs.]
CHICKEN n.
en cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.
EPOCH n.
A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period. The long geological epoch which stored up the vast coal measures. J. C. Shairp.
GROWTH n.
crease in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth. Shak.
MILLENNIALIST n.
reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.
PREDOMINANCE n.
The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination. The predominance of conscience over interest. South.
PREPOLLENCE; PREPOLLENCY n.
The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence. [R.] Coventry.
PREVAIL v.
be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day. This custom makes the short-sighted bigots, and the warier skeptics, as far as it prevails. Locke.
PREVAILMENT n.
Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. [Obs.] Shak.
PREVALENCY n.
See Prevalence.
REVIVAL n.
Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
ROTURIER n.
A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.
USURP v.
the Mind Are busy with poor Peter Bell; Upon the rights of visual sense Usurping, with a prevalence More terrible than magic spell. Wordsworth.
WARM a.
Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.