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preponderance; preponderancy


preponderance; preponderancy is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. Locke. 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. Macaulay.

[2] The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.


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