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Meanings of preponderate in in English

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Usage of preponderate in in English
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The female characters preponderate in a remarkable manner over the male.
The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
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They preponderate in English and history classes more often, let us hope, from inner inclination.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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Year by year stock is taken, and year by year the balance is found to preponderate in favour of Science.
Thoughts on Religion
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Women preponderate in spinning places, because the work of spinning yarn has always been in their hands from time immemorial.
The Spinners
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Moreover, even among the Arunta, certain totems greatly preponderate in each of the two exogamous intermarrying divisions of the tribe.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
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Girls preponderate in our overgrown high school Latin and algebra, because custom and tradition and, perhaps, advice incline them to it.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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Thus, if the minority of the nation preponderates in the Senate,.
Democracy in America — Volume 1
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Enough to say that the joys preponderated in this case.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Com...
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On the whole the democratic spirit preponderated in him.
The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
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Let us only hope, without inquiring too closely, that their number preponderates in our own individual cases.
The Vicar's Daughter
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This did not simplify the situation, for there was no denying that unfavourable criticisms preponderated in Betton's correspondence.
Tales of Men and Ghosts
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As a rule organic matter largely preponderates in the refuse, being as high in some instances as 94 per cent.
Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 / A Weekl...
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"The asses preponderate in the streets," said John Turner to me.
Dross
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Then the militia, excellent of its kind, thoroughly preponderated in their armies;(23) now the cavalry occupies the first place.
The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
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The four classes were some of them male, and some female; but the female sex seems to have preponderated in all.
Lives of the Necromancers
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Each commander had put down his own name for the first prize; for the second, a great majority preponderated in favour of Themistocles.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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