preponderancy

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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 Newman, John Henry

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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 Creswicke, Louis

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 Clarkson, Thomas