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English
Noun
praeponderance (countable and uncountable, plural praeponderances)
- Obsolete and rare spelling of preponderance
1857, R Harries Jones, “Part the Second”, in The Japhetic Races. A Historical and Ethnological Inquiry into the Consanguinity of Various European Races. , Göttingen: Printed at the University Press by W. Fr. Kaestner, →OCLC, section II, page 36:[S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.