preponderate
verbEtymology
From Latin praeponderatus, past participle of praeponderāre (“to outweigh”).
- derived from praeponderatus
Definitions
To outweigh
To outweigh; to be heavier than; to exceed in weight.
- an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes
To overpower by stronger or moral power.
- That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield.
To cause to prefer
To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
- The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.
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To exceed in weight or influence
To exceed in weight or influence; hence, to predominate.
- Anxiety preponderated over hope; and it was scarcely possible for Evelyn to encounter a danger not previously conjured up by the alarmed fancy of his mistress.
- […] if the principle of utility is good for anything, it must be good for weighing these conflicting utilities against one another, and marking out the region within which one or the other preponderates.
The neighborhood
- neighborpreponder
- neighborpreponderance
- neighborpreponderant
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for preponderate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA