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Meanings of
preponderating
in English
Having superior power and influence.
paramount
predominant
overriding
predominate
preponderant
Related terms
dominant
Usage of
preponderating
in English
1
Hence a fresh weight has only been thrown into the
preponderating
scale.
2
It has several thousand inhabitants, the foreign element
preponderating
,
we should judge.
3
She was coloured, but of mixed race, the European element evidently
preponderating
.
4
Why therefore should I-oranyone-offerto discriminate?-since evil is always the
preponderating
factor.
5
For others, again, it is the capillary phenomena which here act a
preponderating
part.
6
We need not fear to admit that man has a
preponderating
tendency to evil.
7
Austria was now the
preponderating
power in degenerate Italy.
8
A
preponderating
authority was given to the electors by the Golden Bull of Charles IV.
9
Religion and the civil law claim a
preponderating
voice.
10
The
preponderating
element was the Anglo-Saxon, and its genius for law and order asserted itself.
11
Anna's reign was the period of a
preponderating
German influence in politics and at court.
12
If we inquire, we shall find one
preponderating
cause underlying every movement of the age.
13
Byzantine taste has exerted a
preponderating
influence upon Russia.
14
Since the downfall of the Roman empire no such
preponderating
power had existed in the world.
15
There's a
preponderating
number of unattached young men in the newly opened parts of the Dominion.
16
The new empire seemed indeed of
preponderating
strength.
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preponderating
preponderate
Verb
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such preponderating
dread preponderating
form the preponderating
immensely preponderating
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