Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To outweigh; preponderate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To preponderate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
preponderate .
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Examples
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He had a full beard, darker than his bright red hair, and a preponder - ance of freckles beneath his sea-green eyes.
Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
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He had a full beard, darker than his bright red hair, and a preponder - ance of freckles beneath his sea-green eyes.
Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990
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The two “Platonic” senses find expression in a preponder - ance of the verbs of seeing and hearing.
PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968
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