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Webster 1913 Edition
Prevalence
Prev′a-lence
,Noun.
The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension;
as, the
prevalence
of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence
of a rumor.The duke better knew what kind of argument were of
prevalence
with him. Clarendon.