'Preponderancy' definitions:

Definition of 'Preponderancy'

From: GCIDE
  • Preponderance \Pre*pon"der*ance\, Preponderancy \Pre*pon"der*an*cy\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]pond['e]rance.]
  • 1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. [1913 Webster]
  • The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them. [1913 Webster]

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