Preponderance

Definitions

1. Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
   countable, uncountable
2. Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
   countable, uncountable
3. Greater physical weight.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
   countable, historical, obsolete, specifically, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[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.”

“Is there a preponderance of female protagonists in commercial fiction, and if so, what does it mean⟳?”

“Subtle, institutional discrimination was evident in the preponderance of blacks and underprivileged whites fighting the war.”

“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.”

“But even less disgruntled observers have⟳ insisted that pain and unpleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have⟳ actually given statistical expression, based on a study⟳ of their own⟳ dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.”

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