prevailingly

English

Etymology

From prevailing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

prevailingly (comparative more prevailingly, superlative most prevailingly)

1. Mainly, predominantly.
   • 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:

     Such places weren't strange to him when they took the form of bourgeois back parlours, a trifle ominously grey and grim from their north light, at watering-places prevailingly homes of humbug, or even when they wore some aspect still less, if not perhaps still more, insidious.