preponderate

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This tilt is divided into two equal partitions by a slip of copper, and placed upon an axis not exactly balanced, but so that one end or the other preponderates.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

In those districts with which I am myself most familiar, it is hard to say which kind preponderates.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

The character of the day has somewhat changed, and the domestic element in its uses preponderates far over the ecclesiastical.

From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel

For, here, the degree of assent depends upon the degree in which the evidence on one side preponderates, or exceeds that on the other.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

The disagreeable preponderates in his fiction—the disagreeable one must call it, rather than the tragic.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver