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Prevail

verb

(past & past part. prevailed; pres. part. prevailing)

Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance. Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule. "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood"

Be valid, applicable, or true. Synonyms: hold, obtain.

Continue to exist. Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run. "The legend of Elvis endures"

Prove superior. Synonym: triumph.

Use persuasion successfully.

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"Prevail" Quotes from Famous Books

... to push the others aside so that he may the more speedily climb a rung of the social ladder. This general ascent, this phenomenon akin to capillarity, is possible only in a country where political equality and economic inequality prevail; for each has the same right to fortune and has but to conquer it. There is, however, a struggle of the vilest egotism, if one wishes to taste the pleasures of the highly placed, pleasures which are displayed ...

— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... the love of little women, Rickman had said it was the great women who were dangerous. The lady to whom he had entrusted the immortality of his Sonnets would be one of these. As the guardian of that immortality Maddox conceived it was his duty to call on the lady and prevail on her to give them up. Under all his loyalty he had the audacity of the journalist who sticks at nothing for his ...

— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair

... Pezelay knew whose will would prevail if Montsoreau met Tavannes at his leisure. To force Montsoreau's hand, therefore, to surround him on his first entrance with a howling mob already committed to violence, to set him at their head and pledge him before he knew with whom he had to do—this had been, this still ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... she cried, and her voice seemed to strike a melodious passage through the air.. "THOU canst prevail!" A burst of music answered her, . . music that rushed wind-like downwards and swept in strong vibrating chords over the land,—again the "KYRIE ELEISON! CHRISTE ELEISON! KYRIE ELEISON!" pealed forth in the same full youthful-toned ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... produces a feeling akin to fear; but which is compatible not only with courage, but with absolute firmness of purpose, when the demand for firmness arises so strongly as to assert itself. With this man it was not really that. He feared the woman;—or at least such fears did not prevail upon him to be silent; but he shrank from subjecting her to the blank misery of utter desertion. After what had passed between them he could hardly bring himself to tell her that he wanted her no further and to bid her go. But that was what he ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

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