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having greater weight (metaphorically); i.e., superiority in amount or influence, or importance- a preponderance of evidence against the defendant
preponderance = having greater weight (metaphorically); i.e., superiority in amount or influence, or importance
- Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- But he was twice the man the rest were, and his last night's victory had given him a huge preponderance on their minds.Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Treasure Island
- the preponderance of good over evil
- She became aware, as she drew close to the Queen, of a preponderance of faeries standing very near them, in a circle around their Lady.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
- "Perhaps," says Simon, "we are also — preponderantly — what we forget."Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- But he was twice the man the rest were, and his last night's victory had given him a huge preponderance on their minds.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- I've never seen such a preponderance of evidence implicating a suspect.James Patterson -- 1st to Die
- It is a disease of pregnancy, of mysterious origin, found preponderantly among poor women.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Due to the preponderance of such agricultural methods in the cultivation of illegal substances, we order you to cease and desist immediately....Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Among the Hidden
- "Well—no, you have tremendous vanity, but it'll amuse the people who notice its preponderance."F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- A second and still greater cause of the preponderance of this court may be adduced.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- But I am constrained to take a view of the case which gives the preponderance to Mr. Farebrother's claims.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- And in balancing his faults with his perfections, the latter seemed rather to preponderate.Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
- Because of the preponderance of Americans, the crowd has a garish and surreal look about it.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- This purpose had not been preponderantly to make money-it had been rather to learn something and to do something.Henry James -- Washington Square
- And while it is questionable on which side the scale will preponderate, it is certain that a government less expensive would be incompetent to the purposes of the Union.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- Close at their side stood Heyward, with an interest in both, that, at such a moment of intense uncertainty, scarcely knew a preponderance in favor of her whom he most loved.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
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