{ } n. [ Cf. F. prépondérance. ] 1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. [ 1913 Webster ]
The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them. [ 1913 Webster ]
[へんちょう(P);へんじゅう(ok), henchou (P); henjuu (ok)] (n, vs) preponderance; making too much of; overestimation; overemphasis; attaching too much importance to; (P) [Add to Longdo]
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