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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Predominance, Predominancynoun
Prevalence; superiority; ascendency; superior influence.
Etymology: præ and domina, Lat.
We make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon and the stars, as if we were knaves, thieves and treacherous by spherical predominance. William Shakespeare, King Lear.
An inflammation consists only of a sanguineous affluxion, or else is denominable from other humours, according to the predominancy of melancholy, phlegm or choler. Brown.
In human bodies, there is an incessant warfare amongst the humours for predominancy. James Howell, Vocal Forest.
The true cause of the Pharisees disbelief of Christ’s doctrine, was the predominance of their covetousness and ambition over their will. Robert South, Sermons.
The several rays therefore in that white light do retain their colorific qualities, by which those of any sort, whenever they become more copious than the rest, do, by their excess and predominance, cause their proper colour to appear. Newton.
Webster Dictionary
Predominancynoun
predominance
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of predominancy in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of predominancy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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