preponderate
Americanverb (used without object)
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to exceed something else in weight; be the heavier.
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to incline downward or descend, as one scale or end of a balance, because of greater weight; be weighed down.
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to be superior in power, force, influence, number, amount, etc.; predominate.
Evidence for the accused preponderated at the trial.
verb
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(often foll by over) to be more powerful, important, numerous, etc (than)
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to be of greater weight than something else
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Etymology
Origin of preponderate
1615–25; < Latin praeponderātus, past participle of praeponderāre to outweigh. See pre-, ponder, -ate 1
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“If his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019
He specifically stated that "management of the institution must be genuinely international, without preponderate power of veto."
From Time Magazine Archive
These seek their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa.
From Time Magazine Archive
While it is true that some Reformed Congregations hold their services on Sunday, the preponderate number of them still cling to the traditional sabbath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still the elastic tension of the ocular muscles decides even here; if the interni preponderate, convergent squint results, when the myopic eye is used for near objects, the emmetropic for distant ones.
From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by C. Schweigger
His respect was of course very freely mingled with irony, and yet it would be rash to say that his irony preponderated.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
The occipital and parietal lobes preponderated in mass as compared with the temporal and frontal.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
On the morning of August 7 the trivial, with us, preponderated.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
Among the commodities for sale jack-fruits preponderated, it being the month of Asadh.
From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
As this latter opinion preponderated Daniel did not find that he was treated with any marked respect in his native town.
From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
"The League cannot ignore the existence of Japan as a world power, and especially as a power with the preponderating position in Eastern Asia."
From Time Magazine Archive
The condition was enjoined upon them that whenever “decidedly preponderating evidence” constrained their adoption of some change in “the Text from which the Authorized Version was made,” they should indicate such alteration in the margin.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
The juries made their presentments in respect of large masses of peasantry, under the preponderating influence of the gentry and without much chance for the verification of particular instances.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
The subsequent marshalling of the cells is disguised by their association with a preponderating mass of inert material.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
Hence the will-reason exhibits its existence in them as a preponderating majority of freemen, or in its “reflectional” universality, which has its actuality vouchsafed it as a participation in the sovereignty.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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