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English
Noun
preponderancy (countable and uncountable, plural preponderancies)
- Archaic form of preponderance.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
- , Book IV, Chapter XV
- The mind should reject or receive it proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.