"prævail" meaning in English

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      "form": "prævailed",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "prevail"
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          "ref": "1652, Walter Charleton, The Darknes of Atheism Dispelled by the Light of Nature. A Physico-Theological Treatise, London: […] J. F. for William Lee, page 296",
          "text": "[…]; firſt prævailed upon him to inveſt Fortune in ſuch a ſpecious diſguise, under which he might, with leſs diſhonour to his owne Intellectuals, advance her to the reputation of a Deity, and adore her.",
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          "ref": "1665, Robert Sprackling, Medela Ignorantiæ: or A Just and Plain Vindication of Hippocrates and Galen from the Groundless Imputations of M. N. Wherein the Whole Substance of His Illiterate Plea, Intituled Medela Medicinæ Is Occasionally Considered, London: […] W. G. for Robert Crofts, page 9",
          "text": "[…]; ſo that his Sentences muſt prævail in thoſe preſſing emergencies when your Nugatory animadverſions are exploded and derided.",
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          "ref": "1773, [William] Scott, Epigrams of Martial, &c. with Mottos from Horace, &c. Translated, Imitated, Adapted, and Addrest to the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry. With Notes Moral, Historical, Explanatory and Humorous., London: […] J. Wilkie, […] J. Walter, […] and H. Parker, […], pages 100–101",
          "text": "This ſame Abſurdity prævails here too, it ſeems—O fye upon it! for this is the Phraſe uſed by Thoſe who are to be the new Biſhop;",
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        "Obsolete spelling of prevail."
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  "word": "prævail"
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      "form": "prævailed",
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          "ref": "1652, Walter Charleton, The Darknes of Atheism Dispelled by the Light of Nature. A Physico-Theological Treatise, London: […] J. F. for William Lee, page 296",
          "text": "[…]; firſt prævailed upon him to inveſt Fortune in ſuch a ſpecious diſguise, under which he might, with leſs diſhonour to his owne Intellectuals, advance her to the reputation of a Deity, and adore her.",
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          "ref": "1665, Robert Sprackling, Medela Ignorantiæ: or A Just and Plain Vindication of Hippocrates and Galen from the Groundless Imputations of M. N. Wherein the Whole Substance of His Illiterate Plea, Intituled Medela Medicinæ Is Occasionally Considered, London: […] W. G. for Robert Crofts, page 9",
          "text": "[…]; ſo that his Sentences muſt prævail in thoſe preſſing emergencies when your Nugatory animadverſions are exploded and derided.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1773, [William] Scott, Epigrams of Martial, &c. with Mottos from Horace, &c. Translated, Imitated, Adapted, and Addrest to the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry. With Notes Moral, Historical, Explanatory and Humorous., London: […] J. Wilkie, […] J. Walter, […] and H. Parker, […], pages 100–101",
          "text": "This ſame Abſurdity prævails here too, it ſeems—O fye upon it! for this is the Phraſe uſed by Thoſe who are to be the new Biſhop;",
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