Preponderance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preponderance \Pre*pon"der*ance\, Preponderancy
  \Pre*pon"der*an*cy\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]pond['e]rance.]
     1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or
        excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an
        outweighing.
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              The mind should . . . reject or receive
              proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater
              grounds of probability.               --Locke.
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              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.
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     2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind
        the trunnions over that in front of them.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  preponderance
       n 1: superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of
            good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power"
       2: a superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a
          preponderance of Blacks in our prisons" [syn: {prevalence}]
       3: exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least
          preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "preponderance":
     accomplishment, advantage, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendant,
     authority, balance of power, bulk, charisma, charm, clout,
     consequence, control, credit, deanship, dominance, dominancy,
     domination, dominion, effect, eminence, eminent domain,
     enchantment, esteem, excellence, favor, force, good feeling,
     greatness, hegemony, hold, importance, incidental power,
     incomparability, influence, influentiality, inimitability,
     insinuation, lead, leadership, leverage, magnetism, majority, mass,
     masterdom, mastery, moment, more than half, most, one-upmanship,
     overlordship, personality, persuasion, plurality, potency, power,
     precedence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence,
     preponderancy, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure,
     prestige, primacy, principality, priority, privilege, purchase,
     reign, repute, right-of-way, rule, say, seniority, skill,
     sovereignty, strength, suasion, subtle influence, success,
     suggestion, superiority, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway,
     the greatest number, transcendence, transcendency, upper hand,
     virtuosity, weight, weightiness, whip hand