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Definition: Preponderancy
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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