Both Uses
prevalent
in
Oliver Twist
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- The oldest inhabitants recollected no period at which measles had been so prevalent, or so fatal to infant existence; and many were the mournful processions which little Oliver headed, in a hat-band reaching down to his knees, to the indescribable admiration and emotion of all the mothers in the town.†
Chpt 6
- Putting a glass of hot gin-and-water on the chimney-piece, he drew his chair to the fire; and, with sundry moral reflections on the too-prevalent sin of discontent and complaining, composed himself to read the paper.†
Chpt 17 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(prevalent) encountered commonly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)