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Prevailingly

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pre·vail·ing  (pr-vlng)
adj.
1. Most frequent or common; predominant.
2. Generally current; widespread.
pre·vailing·ly adv.
pre·vailing·ness n.
Synonyms: prevailing, prevalent, current
These adjectives denote what exists or is encountered generally at a particular time. Prevailing applies to what is most frequent or common at a certain time or in a certain place: took a poll to find the prevailing opinion.
Prevalent suggests widespread existence or occurrence but does not imply predominance: a belief that was prevalent in the Middle Ages.
Current often stresses the present time and is frequently applied to what is subject to frequent change: current psychoanalytic theories.
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But it would be no fair picture of Clifford's state of mind were we to represent him as continually or prevailingly wretched.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
For the population and magistrates of London were prevailingly Puritan, and the great body of the Puritans, then as always, were strongly opposed to the theater as a frivolous and irreligious thing--an attitude for which the lives of the players and the character of many plays afforded, then as almost always, only too much reason.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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