preponderance

• Such a preponderance was thus given to the rowers on the opposite side, that when the wave struck the boat, it caught her on the side instead of the bow, and hurled her upon a ledge of shelving rocks, where the water left her. —  The Lighthouse
• In our district there is little preponderance, in numbers, of one religion over the other; and unless the presence of troops, or worse, of those savages from Enniskillen or Derry, excite them, there is little fear of the Protestants of that neighbourhood interfering with our people, especially as they have no grounds for complaint in the past. —  Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick
• "I will sound the man on the subject, while he appears in good humor I crossed the narrow plat of grass to where our guest sat facing the remains of his late feast, a look of satisfaction visible upon his withered countenance My good friend," he exclaimed, observing my approach, "there seems an over-preponderance of spices in this cured meat; otherwise it meets my cordial approbation, although your Southern cookery has a peculiarly greasy flavor to one of my taste in food I failed to observe your refraining from any on account of that objection," I retorted, deeply amused by his words. —  Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France
• This is one of the faults of the system, that an undue preponderance is thereby given to the ideas of a certain class From the experience of those Europeans who have had good opportunities of forming an opinion, it would seem that this double government of Pacha and Medjlis works badly, owing to the ignorance and want of capacity of those from whom the latter are selected. —  Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels
• They are disarming executive patronage and preponderance, by putting down one half the offices of the United States, which are no longer necessary. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

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