Both Uses of
predominant
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Which seemed to the host to be the predominant qualities of his guest?†
Chpt 17 *
- Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest wit†
Chpt 17
Definition:
most frequent, common, or important; or having more power and influence