- a variation of preponderance.
preponderancy
Example Sentences
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The cardinal difference, and one which stands out in bold relief, is that the Australian food habits are characterised by a preponderancy of meat diet and a corresponding neglect of vegetable products.
From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett
The Austrians have not such a preponderancy of numbers and influence within their own borders as would qualify them for conducting successfully a great movement of colonization.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
Owing to this simple omission, the crane got a preponderancy to one side, and fell upon the building with a terrible crash.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Huss exerted himself with such vigour, that the foreigners were deprived of their preponderancy, and the Carolinum, under his guidance, became henceforth the great bulwark of the Reformed opinions.
From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
On the frontier we had already established air preponderancy and were also doing well now with our artillery.
From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by John Allister Currie
