preponderant

• Their wealth was even more preponderant, being, slaves apart, nearly one hundred per cent. —  History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6)
• And it is in fresh water that we find seven genera of Ganoid fishes, remnants of a once preponderant order: and in fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders now widely separated in the natural scale. —  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
• But as soon as the equilibrium is disturbed and one of the guṇas becomes preponderant, then the process of differentiation and manifestation begins. —  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
• Plato even complains of it as inconveniently preponderant, and as arresting the legislator in all comprehensive projects of reform. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
• But in the modern quartet we have a new element, one which tends more and more to become preponderant, and which might be called orchestral rather than da camera_. —  Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers

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