preponderancy

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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

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

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

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 Muskett, Philip E.

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