Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Weight; gravity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Weight; gravity.
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- noun
weight ;gravity
Etymologies
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Examples
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For every semi-enlightened, pop-i-sophical ponderance, there are two or three adolescent toss-offs that reveal the duo's true level of maturity.
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And as we go to the break here, we continue our Leap Day political coverage by posing this presidential ponderance.
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If anyone's interested, please visit ponderance.blogspot.com.
Kubrick for Blogger 2005
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No, nothing has happened in my life recently to drive me into ponderance, I just happened upon the quote, and the great reminder.
Reminders and Updates barbylon 2004
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No, nothing has happened in my life recently to drive me into ponderance, I just happened upon the quote, and the great reminder.
Reminders and Updates barbylon 2004
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Although she looked good-natured, the size and ponderance of the lady were intimidating.
The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Various 1904
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Although she looked good-natured, the size and ponderance of the lady were intimidating.
Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart George Madden Martin 1901
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Let no one be frightened; I have no intention of fulminating against property an irritating philippic; especially as I think that, according to my principles, humanity is never mistaken; that, in establishing itself at first upon the right of property, it only laid down one of the principles of its future organization; and that, the pre-ponderance of property once destroyed, it remains only to reduce this famous antithesis to unity.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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It explores a common ponderance (how do snowmen melt and get kind of lumpy over time?) in an unusual, imaginative way.
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This week, the ever-deliberative city council pondered the renaming of Cameron Park East, and then punted the issue back to the Parks Commission for further ponderance.
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