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CIDE DICTIONARY
preponderancy, n. [Cf. F. prépondérance.].
- The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. [1913 Webster]"The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability." [1913 Webster]"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." [1913 Webster]
- The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them. [1913 Webster]
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