preponderance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PREPOND'ERANCE PREPOND'ERANCY, noun [See Preponderate.] 1. An outweighing; superiority of weight. The least preponderance of weight on one side of a ship or boat will make it incline or heel. 2. Superiority of power, force or weight; in a figurative sense; as a preponderance of evidence.
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