Vantage vs Preponderance - What's the difference?
vantage | preponderance |
An advantage.
A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
* William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard the Second ActV, scene III:
(dated, tennis) (score after deuce)
(obsolete) To profit; to aid.
Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
* Macaulay
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* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:
(obsolete) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
The greater portion of the weight.
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The majority.
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As nouns the difference between vantage and preponderance
is that vantage is an advantage while preponderance is preponderance.As a verb vantage
is (obsolete|transitive) to profit; to aid.vantage
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Alternative forms
* vauntage (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
Verb
(vantag)- (Spenser)
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* *preponderance
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*Noun
- 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.
- But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and un-pleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.