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preponderantly

preponderantly adverb: in a preponderant manner.

Adverb

preponderantly (comparative more preponderantly, superlative most preponderantly)

  1. In a preponderant manner.
    • But when the second stage set in, in which man became preponderantly self-conscious, he inevitably set about deflecting sex-activities to his own private pleasure and advantage; he employed his budding intellect in scheming the derailment of passion and desire from tribal needs and, Nature's uses...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 186

Forms of preponderantly

comparativemore preponderantly
superlativemost preponderantly

Origin of preponderantly

From preponderant + -ly.

Questions about preponderantly

What does preponderantly mean?
Preponderantly means in a preponderant manner.
What part of speech is preponderantly?
Preponderantly is an adverb.

Words near preponderantly in the dictionary

  1. preponderance of the evidence
  2. preponderances
  3. preponderancies
  4. preponderancy
  5. preponderant
  6. preponderantly
  7. preponderate
  8. preponderated
  9. preponderately
  10. preponderates
  11. preponderating

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