praeponderance

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A form of preponderance — Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.

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Meanings

nounpraeponderance (countable and uncountable, plural praeponderances)

plural praeponderances

  1. countableobsoleterareuncountableObsolete and rare spelling of preponderance.

    [S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.

    1857, R[obert] Harries Jones, “Part the Second”, in The Japhetic Races. A Historical and Ethnological Inquiry into the Consanguinity of Various European Races. […], Göttingen: Printed at the University Press by W. Fr. Kaestner, →OCLC, section II, page 36
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