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preponderancy en · NOUN
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(alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable) Archaic form of preponderance.
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.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:, Book IV, Chapter XV
The mind should […] reject or receive it proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.
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