- a variation of preponderance.
preponderancy
Example Sentences
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But whatever drawbacks may be made from the perfect by the imperfect qualities that have been stated, there is a great preponderancy on the side of virtue.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson
And as this preponderancy may vary almost infinitely, so likewise may the degrees of assent.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
General Joubert then protested that the Boers were fighting merely for the freedom of their own "narrower" Fatherland, and not with a view to the destruction of British preponderancy in South Africa.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke
Presumption, persuasion, belief, conclusion, conviction, moral certainty,—doubt, wavering, distrust, disbelief,—are words which imply an increase or decrease of this preponderancy.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
Plowden, the Roman Catholic historian, says: "A very great preponderancy in favour of the Union existed in the Catholic body, particularly in their nobility, gentry and clergy."
From Is Ulster Right? by Anonymous
