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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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prépondérance

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.

(Gun.)

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

preponderancy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural preponderancies)

Archaic form of preponderance.
- Sir Thomas Browne
  Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
- John Locke
  The mind should […] reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.