All 6 Uses of
prevail
in
1984 by Orwell
- The prevailing emotion was simply curiosity.
p. 116..3 *prevailing = most powerful or influential
- This is not to say that either the conduct of war, or the prevailing attitude towards it, has become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous.
p. 186..1
- Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.
p. 192..5
- In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.
p. 196..9
- But they had been foreshadowed by the various systems, generally called totalitarian, which had appeared earlier in the century, and the main outlines of the world which would emerge from the prevailing chaos had long been obvious.
p. 205..2prevailing = powerful and influential
- If human equality is to be forever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.†
p. 216..9 *
Definitions:
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(prevailing as in: prevailing attitude) most common, powerful, or influential
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(prevail as in: reason will prevail) prove superior or win