predominancy

• a variation of predominance.
  predominance

  noun

  the state, condition, or quality of being predominant.

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predominancy

Cause of its less Gravity: Therefore, he that alledgeth the predominancy of the Element for a Cause, brings the Cause of the Cause, and not the neerest and immediate Cause.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei

For, as it alwayes falls out at the first, that every contrary will have its predominancy, and will worke his owne effects, Nature not liking well to be heated and cooled, at the same time.

From Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease ; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry other desperate Diseases. By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain'd and continued. by James Wadsworth

Our hero's grief reigned in full despotism, until it was deposed by revenge, during the predominancy of which he considered everything which had happened as a circumstance conducive to its gratification.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Everything seemed to conspire to such an end—the predominancy of Catholicism in Germany, the renewed attack upon the Huguenots in France, the attempt upon Geneva, and the enterprise against England.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd

But we cannot be deceived with regard to lxv k the signatures which show the predominancy of these virtues, with whatever degree of justice they may be applied.

From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson

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