Lexicographical Neighbors of Preponderancy
Literary usage of Preponderancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"PREPONDERANCE, pré pin'--) preponderancy.prê-pin'. f '' der-én-f^. J dér-éns.
• / , To PREPONDERATE, pre-pon- cér-áte. va To outweigh ..."
2. Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"there is but one that acts on the opposite side, the inference of the preponderancy
of the five over the one is not conclusive; much less can the opposite ..."
3. New Family Library (1834)
"Th« there ought to be a preponderancy of good, however, even iV a fallen ...
But why a preponderancy ? Is it not enough that the good be proportioned to the ..."
4. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"But the moment we repose ourselves in sleep, and the will becomes inactive and
withdraws its control, the flexor muscles exercise their preponderancy afresh ..."
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