predominance

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Predominance of the English Language.—The national spirit which revealed itself in an armed struggle with the French and in a legal struggle with the Papacy showed itself in the increasing predominance of the English language.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

Predominance of the worship of the dead, 297 sq.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

It has given Place to the Predominance of Vision largely because in Civilized Man it Fails to Act at a Distance.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock

See Asa Gray, "Scientific Papers," 1889, Volume II., page 235, on "The Pertinacity and Predominance of Weeds," where the view here given is adopted.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Illustrations of the Predominance of the Moral in his Nature.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane