preponderances

Noun

preponderance (countable and uncountable, plural preponderances)

1. Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
   • [S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.1857, R[obert] Harries Jones, “Part the Second”, in The Japhetic Races. A Historical and Ethnological Inquiry into the Consanguinity of Various European Races. […], Göttingen: Printed at the...

   Synonyms:

   weight

2. Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
   • In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 49

   Synonyms:

   preponderancy, preponderation, prevalence

3. (obsolete) Greater physical weight.

   Synonyms:

   preponderancy

   1. (historical, obsolete, specifically) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.