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Vantage vs Preponderance - What's the difference?

vantage | preponderance |

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

English

Alternative forms

* vauntage (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
  • O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
  • (dated, tennis) (score after deuce)
  • Verb

    (vantag)
  • (obsolete) To profit; to aid.
  • (Spenser)

    preponderance

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

  • Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
  • * Macaulay
  • 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.
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  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:
  • 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.
  • (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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