All 4 Uses of
prevalent
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- It was prevalent everywhere.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected disposition to give up, and wither away.†
Chpt 2.8
- The idea was so acceptable in the prevalent absence of any idea, that the crowd caught it up with eagerness, and loudly repeating the suggestion to have 'em out, and to pull 'em out, mobbed the two vehicles so closely that they came to a stop.†
Chpt 2.14
- A suspended interest and a prevalent absence of mind, were perhaps observed by the spies who looked in at the wine-shop, as they looked in at every place, high and low, from the kings palace to the criminal's gaol.†
Chpt 2.15
Definition:
encountered commonly