prevalencyn.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Preualencie, excellencie.

1624 E. Forset Defence Right of Kings 76 If this were affirmed of..this Nation whilest the Pope had some hold, and prevalency in the same, then perhaps we might come neere to an agreement.

1691 Humble Addr. Publicans in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 241 Where the vice of Covetousness has..got the prevalency over the rest.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes v. 235 The corruptions of the Church of Rome through the prevalency of the Papal Power brought some such [prescriptions] afterwards in.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iii. 405 During the prevalency of the feudal government, a very small portion of the produce was sufficient to replace the capital employed in cultivation. View more context for this quotation

1800 Patriotic Competition against Self-interested Combination 5 The gross abuses connected with banking, and the commercial system; and the prevalency of these interests over the landed interest.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. v. 187 That there is also in men a naturall prepotency in the right [hand], we cannot with constancy affirme, if we make observation in children;..this prevalency is either uncertainly placed in the laterallity, or custome determines its indifferency. View more context for this quotation

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. v. 189 According to the indifferency or original and native prepotency, there ariseth an equality in both, or prevalency in either side. View more context for this quotation

1648 Humble Petition Jock of Bread 4 My hope languishes, as my feare increases, through the prevalencies of the Sectaries in England.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus 54 The prevalencies of Interests, which hurry up and down, sublevate and depress persons and things.

1788 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 1 81 As many alterations as shall happen in the prevalencies of those different winds..so many repetitions have we of the rain.

1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 262 To..purify my native language from certain false pedantic prevalencies which were much in fashion when I first became a writer.

1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 25 Oct. b8 15 ‘serious’ cases among 74 workers is still incredible, one of the higher prevalancies I have found.

2000 Denver Post (Nexis) 30 Jan. c9 ‘We have a wide range of prevalancies,’ Division of Wildlife big-game manager Rick Kahn said of a condition that..varies widely from one place to the next.

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 110 Sometimes through..prevalencie of error, the Church may be so obscured as to be scarcely visible.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding To Rdr. sig. a2 Neither the inveterateness [printed inverateness] of the Mischief, nor the prevalency of the Fashion, shall be any Excuse for those, who will not take Care about the meaning of their own Words.

1766 W. Cole Let. 26 Jan. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 485 Convinced of the great prevalency of Deism in that Kingdom.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 63 The prevalency and extent of the westerly winds.

1838 E. B. Barrett Lett. to M. R. Mitford (1983) I. 100 The prevalency of the east wind & sudden coldness of weather connected with it, are considered the causes of the attack.

1889 Sunday Opinion (Pueblo, Colorado) 14 July 4/5 The careful observer can not fail to note the growing prevalency of gum chewing.

1935 R. M. Tryon Social Sciences as School Subjects ii. 109 Of the subjects that found a place among those taught during these fifteen years, general history and the history of the United States attained a prevalency of 75 to 100 per cent.

2000 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 30 Oct. Lawmakers need to determine exactly the prevalency of such problems.