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Webster 1913 Edition


Prevalence

Prev′a-lence

,
Noun.
[L.
praevalentia
: cf. F.
prévalence
. See
Prevail
.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prevalence

PREV'ALENCE


Definition 2024


prévalence

prévalence

See also: prevalence

French

Noun

prévalence f (plural prévalences)

  1. prevalence