"prævaile" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "prævailes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævailing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævailed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævailed",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "prevail"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1632, The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous, London: […] A. Millar, published 1753, page iv:",
          "text": "[…]; and prævaile with me to præferre a life, that had at leaſt some credit in it, ſome place given it, before a manner of living much diſregarded and diſcountenanc’t.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1645–9, Winthrop Papers: 1645-1649, published 1947, page 377:",
          "text": "The Condicion (although the Parents offer Payment with Thanks) I question not but will prævaile with your lo[ving] breast wherein God graciously dwells as in a Pallace of his Delight:[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1651, Ri[chard] Watson, Ακολουθος or A Second Faire Warning to Take Heed of the Scotish Discipline, in Vindication of the First, (Which the Rᵗ. Reverend Father in God, the Lᵈ. Bishop of London Derrie Published Aᵒ 1649.) Against a Schismatical and Seditious Reviewer R. B. G. One of the Bold Commissioners from the Rebellious Kirke in Scotland, The Hague: […] Samuel Broun, pages 56 and 133:",
          "text": "The Captaine of the Caſtle turnes ſome canon upon the Towne, & by that militarie argument prævailes with them to disband.[…]How farre private inſtructions and intereſts prævaile with your Presbyteries in their elections to exauctorate all the good qualifications in the competition of Candidates, the records of your Edenburgh Tables at the begining of this Rebellion can juſtifie:[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete form of prevail."
      ],
      "id": "en-prævaile-en-verb-C~yK4vuO",
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          "prevail#English"
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prævaile"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prævailes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævailing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævailed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævailed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1632, The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous, London: […] A. Millar, published 1753, page iv:",
          "text": "[…]; and prævaile with me to præferre a life, that had at leaſt some credit in it, ſome place given it, before a manner of living much diſregarded and diſcountenanc’t.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1645–9, Winthrop Papers: 1645-1649, published 1947, page 377:",
          "text": "The Condicion (although the Parents offer Payment with Thanks) I question not but will prævaile with your lo[ving] breast wherein God graciously dwells as in a Pallace of his Delight:[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1651, Ri[chard] Watson, Ακολουθος or A Second Faire Warning to Take Heed of the Scotish Discipline, in Vindication of the First, (Which the Rᵗ. Reverend Father in God, the Lᵈ. Bishop of London Derrie Published Aᵒ 1649.) Against a Schismatical and Seditious Reviewer R. B. G. One of the Bold Commissioners from the Rebellious Kirke in Scotland, The Hague: […] Samuel Broun, pages 56 and 133:",
          "text": "The Captaine of the Caſtle turnes ſome canon upon the Towne, & by that militarie argument prævailes with them to disband.[…]How farre private inſtructions and intereſts prævaile with your Presbyteries in their elections to exauctorate all the good qualifications in the competition of Candidates, the records of your Edenburgh Tables at the begining of this Rebellion can juſtifie:[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete form of prevail."
      ],
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          "prevail#English"
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}