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The young child's reactions are preponderately motor, or at any rate psychomotor and not purely psychic.
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Accordingly, the man governed preponderately by feelings, or sensuously unstrung, is emancipated and set free by matter.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XVII. 1909
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At a time when the United States is so generally in favor of the election of Senators by direct vote, when England is trending so preponderately in favor of curbing the veto power of the House of Lords, it seems remarkable that Canada never questions the power of the Senator appointed for life.
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The inhabitants of this province were preponderately Italian in language and Italian in feeling and ever since the formation of the kingdom of Italy a strong propaganda was carried on with the object of finally accomplishing the redemption of these provinces from
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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To that note Germany did not reply until July 8, and the German rejoinder was preponderately characterized by American newspapers not as
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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It shows that the symptoms do not by any means result at the expense only of the so called normal sexual impulse (at least not exclusively or preponderately), but they represent the converted expression of impulses which in a broader sense might be designated as _perverse_ if they could manifest themselves directly in phantasies and acts without deviating from consciousness.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897
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Besides those symbols, which are just as frequent for the male as for the female genitals, there are others which preponderately, or almost exclusively, designate one of the sexes, and there are still others of which only the male or only the female signification is known.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897
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This, however, is found frequently but by no means regularly or preponderately.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897
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Gesellschaft, 1845, 152 ff., says he thinks that possibly it might have been well never to have established banks, but that yet the craving for the new is preponderately good, it brings inventions and improvements with it.
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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Accordingly, the man governed preponderately by feelings, or sensuously unstrung, is emancipated and set free by matter.
Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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