Preponderancy

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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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