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Preponderant

adjective
1.
Having superior power and influence.  Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating.






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"Preponderant" Quotes from Famous Books



... young stranger was to be their guest for the night; and such was the surprise with which she was struck by a proposal so uncommon, that, had the superincumbent weight of her head-dress, such as we before described, been less preponderant, her grey locks must have started up on end, and hurled ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... according to circumstances, a lover of peace and order, a conciliatory spirit. To him was given the directors' confidential, elaborate, and elastic plan for territorial compensations as a basis for peace, the outcome of which in any case would leave Prussia preponderant in Germany. Liberal and well disposed to the Revolution as they believed, she could then be wooed into a firm alliance. In Italy, France was to maintain her new authority and retain what she had conquered for her own good pleasure. Bonaparte intended to do as he found necessary ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane



Words linked to "Preponderant" :   preponderance, paramount, predominate, dominant, preponderate



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