predominance
noun
the state, condition, or quality of being predominant.
predominancy
-
a variation of
predominance.
Example Sentences
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A predominancy of shade has the best effect; and light, though it should not be scattered, must not be drawn, as it were, into one focus.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828 by Various
Thenceforwards the verse of the South and of the North, and alike the forgotten and the imperishable, all attest the predominancy of the same star.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
For here the dark brown spots vary between nearly complete deficiency up to such predominancy as almost to hide the pale yellow ground-color.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
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
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
