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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Preponderance, Preponderancynoun
The state of outweighing; superiority of weight.
Etymology: from preponderate.
As to addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them unto blocks, this occasional preponderancy is rather an appearance than reality. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
The mind should examine all the grounds of probability, and, upon a due balancing the whole, reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. John Locke.
Little light boats were the ships which people used, to the sides whereof this fish remora fastening, might make it swag, as the least preponderance on either side will do, and so retard its course. Nehemiah Grew, Musæum.
Webster Dictionary
Preponderancynoun
the quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing
Preponderancynoun
the excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them
Etymology: [Cf. F. prpondrance.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of preponderancy in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of preponderancy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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