preponderating
- a word derived from preponderate.
- a word form of preponderate.
Example Sentences
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"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
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 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
You contend that there is “decidedly preponderating evidence” for reading instead, “Great Is the mystery of godliness, who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,” &c.:
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
It has, however, on the highest authority since transpired that when in 1874 Mr Disraeli took office, he had already decided upon acquiring for England a preponderating interest in the international waterway.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
The more difficult expression is adopted by preponderating textual authorities, and “his house” is regarded as a correction to make the sense easier.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander
