preponderancy

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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

nounpreponderancy (countable and uncountable, plural preponderancies)

plural preponderancies

  1. archaiccountableuncountableArchaic form of preponderance.

    , Book IV, Chapter XV The mind should […] reject or receive it proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.

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    Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “preponderancy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preponderancy.

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