Verb (used without object), : Evidence for the accused preponderated at the trial. From Dictionary.com.
The one preponderating impression produced by a short visit to. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
Berber, or the man with black blood preponderating in his veins. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
Byzantine taste has exerted a preponderating influence upon Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
France and England for the preponderating influence with the natives. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
The style is a mixture of German and Italian, the former preponderating. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
It has several thousand inhabitants, the foreign element preponderating, we should judge. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.] Reference
Has climate a preponderating influence in determining the character and history of a nation?. From Wordnik.com. [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition] Reference
The Rainbow is one of the many tokens of preponderating Chinese influence in the Straits of Malacca. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
Sub-Ghauts and lower ranges (say 2000 feet high), of sandstone capped with limestone, the former preponderating. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
INJUSTICE, nor the permanence of a State in the midst of preponderating elements of fluctuating popular delusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
Suspense between hope and dread, dread preponderating, is the state of feeling represented in the present chorus. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
In his view the preponderating power in human conduct belongs not to the intellect but to the instincts and emotions. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It is always in the region proper to the element preponderating in the scheme of their constitution that things exist. From Wordnik.com. [On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing] Reference
These are familiar examples of the preponderating influence of the male parent, so far as the external form is considered. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals] Reference
Cubans, black gentlemen from Hayti, French colonists from Martinique, but English preponderating above all other nationalities. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Nowadays, no doubt, their relative importance is more evenly balanced, and what preponderating interest the cartoon may have for. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
It was a long, thin nose, which, as it progressed forward into the air, certainly had a preponderating bias towards the left side. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
By conquest, alliances and understandings with his neighbours he had acquired a preponderating influence in the councils of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
It is at any rate easy to understand how the study of mathematics came to hold the preponderating place it did in the Platonic Academy. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Already his father was meditating abdication in his favour, and Philip was pondering how he might secure at least a preponderating influence with. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
But our impressions of the fashionable world, as a class, must be taken from the general preponderating characteristics of good or evil of the whole. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
The country which presents the most interesting questions in connexion with the study is the United Kingdom, with its largely preponderating foreign trade. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The great preponderating number of females brought forth among domesticated animals, will account for the countless herds of cattle which overspread the colony. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829] Reference
In the institutions the combined is by far the preponderating system, being employed in all but fifteen of the sixty-five; while the oral is employed in twelve. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
It will suffice, at this stage, to say that it was at first of wood, and became, by degrees, of wood and iron; in the present day the iron very much preponderating. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
It is a remarkable fact that Mormon immigrants made even a greater number of agricultural settlements in Arizona than did the numerically preponderating other peoples. From Wordnik.com. [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference
These fair attractions, although occupying, in practice, a preponderating share of my time, are as nothing to me, however, in comparison with that enticing illusion, my Book. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
Beyond these tracts there are many Kachins in Katha, Möng-Mit, and the northern Shan States, but though they are often the preponderating, they are not the exclusive population. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The preponderating influence was exercised by the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
If we inquire, we shall find one preponderating cause underlying every movement of the age. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
It is true that Hyde assigned to the Crown a far more preponderating weight in the balance than later constitutional theories admitted. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
While husband and wife belonged to different gentes, the preponderating number in each household would be of the same gens, namely, that of their mothers. From Wordnik.com. [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference
For that Mr. Darwin did deny skill and contrivance in connection with the greatly preponderating part of organic developments cannot be and is not now disputed. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
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