preponderance
See also: prépondérance
English
Alternative forms
- præponderance (rare, archaic)
Etymology
From Latin praeponderare (“outweigh”), from prae- (“before”) + ponderare (“to weigh”)
Noun
preponderance (countable and uncountable, plural preponderances)
- Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
- Macaulay
- In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.
- 2000 April 17, Paul Van Slambrouck, “California''s brightest star is, well, gray”, in Christian Science Monitor:
- Subtle, institutional discrimination was evident in the preponderance of blacks and underprivileged whites fighting the war.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:
- But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and un-pleasure 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.
- Macaulay
- (obsolete) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
- The greater portion of the weight.
- 2006 January 24, Scott Baldauf, “India history spat hits US”, in Christian Science Monitor:
- the preponderance of evidence shows that Aryans came to India, with their horses, their chariots, and their religious beliefs, from outside.
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- The majority.
- 1997 August 17, Patricia Holt, “Just Add Sand; Trash fiction for end-of-the summer beach reading”, in San Francisco Chronicle, page 1:
- Is there a preponderance of female protagonists in commercial fiction, and if so, what does it mean?
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Related terms
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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/prescient' title='prescient'>prescient</a>
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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/appendage' title='appendage'>appendage</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/compend' title='compend'>compend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/compendious' title='compendious'>compendious</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/compendium' title='compendium'>compendium</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/depend' title='depend'>depend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/expend' title='expend'>expend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/expenditure' title='expenditure'>expenditure</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/expense' title='expense'>expense</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/impend' title='impend'>impend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/impending' title='impending'>impending</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/penchant' title='penchant'>penchant</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pend' title='pend'>pend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pendant' title='pendant'>pendant</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pendent' title='pendent'>pendent</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pending' title='pending'>pending</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/ponder' title='ponder'>ponder</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/postpend' title='postpend'>postpend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pound' title='pound'>pound</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/prepend' title='prepend'>prepend</a>
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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/propend' title='propend'>propend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/spend' title='spend'>spend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/stipend' title='stipend'>stipend</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/suspend' title='suspend'>suspend</a>
Translations
state of being preponderant
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References
- preponderance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- preponderance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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