Adjective : a preponderant misconception. From Dictionary.com.
In America, at least, this Agrarianism was preponderantly biblical. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
White men don't preponderantly like the war in Iraq, or the way the economy is going. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Responds: I Will Never Use "Threat Of Terrorism To Scare Up Votes"] Reference
Comment in the Brazilian press was preponderantly on the side of the law against the preacher. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I do think at this point it is preponderantly a military problem, but that will shift and change. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2001] Reference
There were some 74 comments which seemed to be preponderantly negative toward Hillary and even Bill. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary Stronger Nominee Than Obama In New Mexico] Reference
They moved into preponderantly friendly areas and stayed, assuming both administrative and defense functions. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
This purpose had not been preponderantly to make money — it had been rather to learn something and to do something. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Square] Reference
Justice means the state accusing you of a crime does not have preponderantly more resources on your case than you do. From Wordnik.com. [When lawyers go on strike : Law is Cool] Reference
When the nation was founded, and for its first half-century, almost one resident in five was black preponderantly slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Population of the United States] Reference
Shops we do have, but they are preponderantly corporate-owned: Design Within Reach, Joseph A. Bank, North Face, A.hletica, LA.Fitness. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Shopkeepers] Reference
This is a legitimate way to deal with the problem since the immediate decisions affecting production are preponderantly made in terms of money. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 6~ The Historical Circumstances] Reference
For better or worse, preponderantly the latter, the book business is supposed to be about returns, so inevitably one asks: What inventory was written down?. From Wordnik.com. [Ford Puts a PC in Every Pot-That's More Browsers for Bezos] Reference
The residents of Lubumbashi, capital of the mineral-rich Shaba province from which Kabila hails, are believed to be preponderantly favourable to the rebels. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In any event, definition #3 of the verb form is almost universally applicable to our discussions on this site as they are preponderantly political in nature. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Word "WHORE" Offensive? Is it a dirty word?] Reference
It turned preponderantly to commercial and economic aims. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
No funding from the Republic's preponderantly white purse holders. From Wordnik.com. [Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums] Reference
In Illinois, also, the current of migration was at first preponderantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontier in American History] Reference
Jacob recognizes that the fault lies preponderantly at the father's door. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The life mode in both is sensitively sympathetic, or preponderantly sympathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference
While the crowd was preponderantly white, the message was racially universalistic. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
But the determination of foreign policy became preponderantly a Presidential concern. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Kansas, though preponderantly Unionist, had many Confederates along its southern boundary. From Wordnik.com. [Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray] Reference
If he is wholly evil, as many say he is, then the American democracy is preponderantly evil. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
But our system is an adversarial common law system and it's preponderantly a system of lawyer-made law. From Wordnik.com. [The Glittering Eye] Reference
He now could see the Federal line of battle, drawn on both sides of the pike, but preponderantly to the westward. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
Take one more instance in that district -- out of the many -- in the town of Cavan, a preponderantly Catholic borough. From Wordnik.com. [Home Rule Second Edition] Reference
She is preponderantly agricultural, with but one city of any size, and very few of her women are other than pure and intelligent. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
Commission on Human Rights: The victims of these crimes have preponderantly been the state of young women, between 12 and 22 years of age. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Independence Day in Surf City USA] Reference
Among the twelve commonest names of this class those that are not preponderantly Welsh are Roberts, Edwards, Harris, Phillips, and Rogers. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
What he depicts is so preponderantly the "tapering" people that the remainder of the picture, in a notice as brief as the present, may be neglected. From Wordnik.com. [Picture and Text 1893] Reference
The whole body, however, was preponderantly Norman, and William could therefore depend upon it to serve him as an army in the field in case of an English rising. From Wordnik.com. [A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII] Reference
This class, as has been said, was preponderantly in the majority, but its mass was being constantly diminished as a little knowledge of danger seeped into its substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign at Six] Reference
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