preponderancy

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General Joubert then protested that the Boers were fighting merely for the freedom of their own "narrower" Fatherland, and not with a view to the destruction of British preponderancy in South Africa.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis

But whatever drawbacks may be made from the perfect by the imperfect qualities that have been stated, there is a great preponderancy on the side of virtue.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Clarkson, Thomas

Owing to this simple omission, the crane got a preponderancy to one side, and fell upon the building with a terrible crash.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

On the frontier we had already established air preponderancy and were also doing well now with our artillery.

From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister

The Austrians have not such a preponderancy of numbers and influence within their own borders as would qualify them for conducting successfully a great movement of colonization.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various