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Definition of Prevailed
1. prevail [v] - See also: prevail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prevailed
Literary usage of Prevailed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jane Austen's Works by Jane Austen, James Edward Austen-Leigh (1882)
"... they were prevailed on to stay nearly two months at the Park, and to assist
in the due celebration of that festival which requires a more than ordinary ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(68) But the name of Constantinople(69) has prevailed over the honourable epithet ;
and, ... faithful to the mode of superstition which prevailed in ..."
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