predominancy

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English

Etymology

From predominant +‎ -ancy.

Noun

predominancy (countable and uncountable, plural predominancies)

  1. Predominance.
    • 1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum:
      I am not treating of the Predominancy of motions or virtues , but of the Predominancy of parts in bodies