prepotencyn.

1623 J. Bargrave Policy for Virginia in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1935) IV. 433 Prepotencie is the principall thing that you must all take heede of.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. v. 187 If there were a determinate prepotency in the right [hand] . View more context for this quotation

1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 178 Prepotency of plundring did facilitat the way to dispossesse me of mine own.

1786 A. Tarchi Virginia ii. 9 Alas! the prepotency of a Decemvir robs me of my spouse.

1815 Zeluca I. 135 I shall not fall into the sullens at his present prepotency.

1845 J. Oxlee Three Lett. Archbishop Canterb. & Confut. Diabolarchy i. 27 The universal belief not only in the existence, but in the pluripresence and prepotency of a Diabolarch, commonly called, The Devil.

1887 Edinb. Rev. 165 307 The destruction of that Russian prepotency.

1943 Times 10 Mar. 5/6 France..lapsed into that system from which, during the preceding 200 years, even in the days of her prepotency, she had consciously recoiled.

1997 In These Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. 3 She punctures the cavalier sense of prepotency and moral immunity of Americans traveling in an unnamed Latin American country..during a brutal counterinsurgency war.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species viii. 274 The prepotency runs more strongly in the male-ass than in the female.

1877 C. Darwin Different Forms Flowers vi. 258 The prepotency of pollen from another individual over a plant's own pollen.

1893 National Observer 8 Apr. 523/2 Attributed to the Anglo-Saxon prepotency of transmission in the racial struggle.

a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. x. 85 Prepotency can be handed down through either male or female.

1952 Times 13 Nov. 7/5 It is the extraordinary prepotency of Mr. Kleberg's cattle..that could within a decade or two grade up even the scattered breeds of north Australia.

1994 Heredity 72 95 Differences in pollen prepotency..may have contributed to the observed patterns of hybrid seed formation.

1890 Science 14 Nov. 275/1 We have to suppose..a natural prepotency in the paths of discharge into the right arm.

1928 Psychol. Rev. 35 420 What response the animal will make at a given moment depends upon the prepotency of the stimuli.

1951 G. K. Yacorzynski Med. Psychol. ii. 50 Another way to determine the prepotency of a drive is to allow the animal to choose between two or a number of incentives, such as food and the opposite-sexed mate.

1992 Biol. Psychol. 33 211 The implications of these results for Ohman's functional-evolutionary model of social phobia are discussed, and alternative explanations in terms of prepotency and prior learning are examined.