Preponderate - What does it mean?
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To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
* Glanvill
To overpower by stronger or moral power.
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(obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
* Fuller
To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate
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English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(preponderat)- An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the centre of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes.
- The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.
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