predominance

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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

Predominance in all Ages of uniform Continental Movements    over those by which the Rocks are locally convulsed.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

“On the Predominance of Spiral Forms among the Nebulæ,” A. N., 3601.

From Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector by Keeler, James Edward

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

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