preponderancy

English

Noun

preponderancy (countable and uncountable, plural preponderancies)

  1. Archaic form of preponderance.
    • Sir Thomas Browne
      Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
    • John Locke
      The mind should […] reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.
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