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   PREPONDERATE definition: 1. to be more important or larger in size or number than other people or things in a group: 2. to…. Learn more.

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     PREPONDERATE meaning: 1. to be more important or larger in...

   • Znaczenie Preponderate, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     preponderate definicja: 1. to be more important or larger in...

   • Preponderate in Simplified Chinese

     PREPONDERATE translate: 占优势. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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     PREPONDERATE translate: 占優勢. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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   The meaning of PREPONDERATE is to exceed in weight. How to use preponderate in a sentence.

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   to exceed something else in weight; be the heavier. 2. to incline downward or descend, as one scale or end of a balance, because of greater weight; be weighed down. 3. to be superior in power, force, influence, number, amount, etc.; predominate. Evidence for the accused preponderated at the trial.

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   3 days ago · preponderate. Other forms: preponderating; preponderates; preponderated. Definitions of preponderate. verb. weigh more heavily. synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, overbalance. see more.

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   What does the verb preponderate mean? There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb preponderate , six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   What does the adjective preponderate mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective preponderate . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   What does the term 'preponderate' mean?

   • The term 'preponderate' means to exceed something else in weight. It can also mean to be greater than something else, as in power, force, quantity, or importance (predominate): "In balancing his faults with his perfections, the latter seemed rather to preponderate" (Henry Fielding).

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   What is the meaning of preponderance?

   • Preponderance means to be greater than something else, as in power, force, quantity, or importance. It is synonymous with predominate. (Quote: "In balancing his faults with his perfections, the latter seemed rather to preponderate" - Henry Fielding)

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   What does preponderantly mean?

   • Define preponderantly. preponderantly synonyms, preponderantly pronunciation, preponderantly translation, English dictionary definition of preponderantly. adj. 1. Having superior force, importance, or influence: "No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power" . 2. Having greater weight;...

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   Where did the word preponderate come from?

   • The earliest known use of the verb preponderate is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for preponderate is from 1611, in the writing of John Speed, historian and cartographer. preponderate is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin praeponderāt-, praeponderāre.

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   What does praeponderatus mean?

   • Latin praeponderatus, past participle of praeponderare, from prae- + ponder-, pondus weight — more at pendant circa 1611, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1 1818, in the meaning defined above “Preponderate.”

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   What does ponder mean?

   • 1. to exceed something else in weight. 2. to incline downward or descend, as one scale or end of a balance, because of greater weight; be weighed down. 3. to be superior in power, force, influence, number, amount, etc.; predominate. [1615–25; < Latin praeponderātus, past participle of praeponderāre to outweigh. See pre -, ponder, -ate 1]

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   1. To exceed something else in weight. 2. To be greater than something else, as in power, force, quantity, or importance; predominate: "In balancing his faults with his perfections, the latter seemed rather to preponderate" (Henry Fielding). adj. (-dər-ĭt) Preponderant.