Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of predominating; ascendancy; superior power or influence; prevalence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or state of
predominating ;ascendency ;predominance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being predominant over others
- noun the quality of being more noticeable than anything else
Etymologies
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Examples
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Robert, as Jake pointed out, your argument depends on predomination, which is not a possibility.
SSM Opponent Predicts End of Western Civilization Due To Sexual Disorganization 2005
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Sadly for the city and for those who live in it, the predomination of a particular school of architecture in Mexico City came to an end around the middle of the 20th century when urban development regulations slackened and variety in architectural expression became the order of the day.
Urban Deconstruction 2006
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Sadly for the city and for those who live in it, the predomination of a particular school of architecture in Mexico City came to an end around the middle of the 20th century when urban development regulations slackened and variety in architectural expression became the order of the day.
Urban Deconstruction 2006
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You would not trust to the predomination of right, which you believe is in your opinions; you would keep wrong out of their heads.
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Seeing with me all of me is in your royal possession, and whatever pieces of mine have hitherto under the starres passed the public view, come now of right to be under the predomination of a power that both contains all their perfections and hath influences of a more sublime nature.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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You would not trust to the predomination of right, which you believe is in your opinions; you would keep wrong out of their heads.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Moreover, there are three important facts to be remembered in regard to the former Buddhist predomination: (1) Buddhism conserved the family-cult, modifying the forms of the rite; (2) Buddhism never really supplanted the Ujigami cults, but maintained them; (3)
Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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The world looks more like 19th-century Paris - the predomination of the discontented intelligentsia, intermixed with the urban poor at numerous social interfaces cabarets then, raves now; meanwhile the solidaristic culture and respectability of organised labour struggles to make an impact.
The Guardian World News Paul Mason 2011
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You would not trust to the predomination of right, which you believe is in your opinions; you would keep wrong out of their heads.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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By his proportion of this predomination I will consent that Dryden should be tried; of this, which, in opposition to reason, makes Ariosto the darling and the pride of Italy; of this, which, in defiance of criticism, continues Shakespeare the sovereign of the drama.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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