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Definition of Preponderating
1. Adjective. Having superior power and influence. "The predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"
Similar to: Dominant
Derivative terms: Predominance, Preponderance, Preponderate
Definition of Preponderating
1. Verb. (present participle of preponderate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preponderating
1. preponderate [v] - See also: preponderate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preponderating
Literary usage of Preponderating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Psychology of Peoples by Gustave Le Bon (1898)
"CHAPTER II THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS IN THE EVOLUTION OF CIVILISATIONS
Preponderating influence of religious ideas—They have always constituted the most ..."
2. The Psychology of Peoples by Gustave Le Bon (1912)
"CHAPTER II THE R6LE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS IN THE EVOLUTION OF CIVILISATIONS
Preponderating influence of religious ideas—They have always constituted the most ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The growth of cities, the preponderating interest in athletic sports, and the
study of biology in the laboratory, have lead the schoolboy away from contact ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1885)
"In the treatment of an acute attack of gout Dr. Roose is of course influenced by
his views as to the preponderating causal influence of hepatic disorder, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Since the days of Clovis the Church had held, through her bishops, a preponderating
position in the Frankish world. In the eyes of the people the bishops ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"In wrapped America in conflagration, with a preponderating voice in the over the
whole world, which has prodigious effort was made by both extent over the ..."
7. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"Showers and sunshine, the first preponderating. Our killed and wounded in
Beauregard's battle amount to some 1500. The enemy lost 1000 prisoners, ..."
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