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PREPOTENCY

\pɹɪpˈə͡ʊtənsi], \pɹɪpˈə‍ʊtənsi], \p_ɹ_ɪ_p_ˈəʊ_t_ə_n_s_i]\

Definitions of PREPOTENCY

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.

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The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

The ability or power possessed by one parent in greater degree than the other, of transmitting hereditable characteristics to the offspring.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

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