Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preponderantly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
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- adverb In a preponderating manner;
preponderantly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The mass of them and the masses under their influence are preponderatingly Confucian; and in the observance of ancestral worship, the most remarkable feature of the religion proper of China from the earliest times, of which Confucius was not the author but the prophet, an overwhelming majority are regular and assiduous.
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Hence their diet became more and more preponderatingly a liver diet.
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It is surely enough if the results harmonize on the whole and preponderatingly with the rational, moral, and æsthetic instincts of man.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Catholic in the sense that it shall be national, and this in a preponderatingly Catholic country implies Catholicism.
Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell
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The chief feature of the allotment was, however, the formal overthrow of the fiction that Austria is preponderatingly a German country and not a country preponderatingly Slav with a German dynasty and a German façade.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The mass of them and the masses under their influence are preponderatingly Confucian; and in the observance of ancestral worship, the most remarkable feature of the religion proper of China from the earliest times, of which Confucius was not the author but the prophet, an overwhelming majority are regular and assiduous.
A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian
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This was probably due partly to the obscurity and confusion of his thought, partly to his lack of sympathy with the biological thought of his day, which was preponderatingly morphological.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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In all probability this legend is a mythical history, in which truth is very largely and preponderatingly mixed with fiction.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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The more, however, we increase rural settlement by peasants and others, the more easily we can absorb urban population, and our census returns show unmistakably that British Immigration preponderatingly settles in urban communities.
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Nineteen of these meetings have been held since the first in Lille in 1881, most of them being preponderatingly French, the inspiration of the first coming from Mgr. de Ségur.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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