Prevalence is valid Scrabble Word

Is prevalence a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for PREVALENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:

the state of being prevalent, also PREVALENCY
the fact or condition of being prevalent; commonness
The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
(epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
a superiority in numbers or amount

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the quality or state of being prevalent

Words related to PREVALENCE

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Words that contain PREVALENCE

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How to use PREVALENCE in a sentence

Thence he took shipping for New York, passing through the Straits of Florida, and reached his destination during the prevalence of the yellow fever in that city.
This unexpected prevalence of a visionary tendency among persons who form a part of ordinary society seems to me suggestive and well worthy of being put on record.
They are sometimes too strongly influenced by honest prejudices of friendship, or the prevalence of virtuous compassion.
It may be observed further, without fear of rebuke, that the behaviour of the different kinds of birds during the prevalence of romantic love is not always equally above reproach.
Fear of disease does not prevent immorality, as may be judged from the immense prevalence of venereal disorders.
Nothing, therefore, is gained from their prevalence except a flood of death, disability, and misery, which falls alike on the just and unjust.
From the point of view of an officer determined to escape, however, the prevalence of this quality was not without its advantage.
The existence of Society, as you truly say, is threatened by the present lamentable prevalence of Liberal ideas throughout the length and breadth of the land.
In their native state, the beasts like the land as much as the water, preferring it indeed during the prevalence of certain winds.
Such tendencies are counterbalanced by the strength and prevalence of ideas based on renunciation and self-effacement.

The first is the unusual intensity and prevalence of the religious temperament.
On account of the prevalence of yellow fever, prudence forbade my landing.
No reader of current literature need be told of the appalling prevalence of poverty in Great Britain.
This opinion reappeared faintly at intervals, but obtained very little prevalence in the early ages of the Church.
In every event, it must be confessed that of all the thoughtful and refined forms of the belief in a future life none has had so extensive and prolonged a prevalence as this.
The growing prevalence of these diseases indicates a falling-off in the vitality of the race.
One great factor in childless homes is the prevalence of the black plagues.
But there is no denying the prevalence of a lower and baser spirit.
The prevalence of disease among animals used for food is known to be very great, and their transmission to man is no longer a matter of dispute.
Probably no one regrets the prevalence of extravagant expenditures more than persons who are themselves in public life.
Of the prevalence of hard drinking in certain houses as a system, a remarkable proof is given at page 102.
In the case of Ireland it is possible to understand the prevalence of this instinct in 1886, though even then it was irrational enough.
That the cause of the redeemer was to be depressed, before its universal prevalence in the latter days, is plainly revealed.
I think the direction, in which those pieces of ice seemed to have been driven, is a strong proof of the prevalence of south-west winds in this part of the ocean.
From its prevalence and its complications it is one of the most serious diseases that affect mankind.

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