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Preponderance

//pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion. countable, uncountable

    "[S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements."

  2. 2
    exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight wordnet
  3. 3
    Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence. countable, uncountable

    "In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed."

  4. 4
    a superiority in numbers or amount wordnet
  5. 5
    Greater physical weight. countable, obsolete, uncountable
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  1. 6
    superiority in power or influence wordnet
  2. 7
    Greater physical weight.; The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them. countable, historical, obsolete, specifically, uncountable

Etymology

From preponderant + -ance.

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