单词 | prepollence |
释义 | prepollencen. Now rare. Predominance, prevalence; pervasiveness. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [noun] predominy?a1475 weight1569 predomination1592 predominance1595 predominancy1598 ascendant1607 predominion1607 prepotency1623 overweight1626 overbearance1639 preponderation1650 prepollency1663 preponderancy1689 the transcendent1691 overpoise1697 preponderance1704 prepollence1730 1730 N. Stevens Two Lett. from Deist 7 That Bayle's book asserts the prepollence of misery in this life I know, what the author himself believ'd I cannot so easily tell. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 322 The Prepollence of agreeable Tastes upon the Whole. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. 28 The infinite Prepollence of Happiness above Misery. 1910 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 20 Jan. 1/1 It shows the relentlessness of justice and the cryptic prepollence of Providence. 1914 ‘M. Field’ Dedicated ii. 95 Strength of the world, O Noon, strange things are done 'Neath thy prepollence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1730 |
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