preponderancy

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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

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

Huss exerted himself with such vigour, that the foreigners were deprived of their preponderancy, and the Carolinum, under his guidance, became henceforth the great bulwark of the Reformed opinions.

From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)

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

Plowden, the Roman Catholic historian, says: "A very great preponderancy in favour of the Union existed in the Catholic body, particularly in their nobility, gentry and clergy."

From Is Ulster Right? by Anonymous