preponderance

preponderance

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  1. enemmistö, enemmyys, ylivoima

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preponderance

  1. paino, raskaus, enemmistö, enemmyys, lukumäärä, luku, määrä, ylivoima, voima, voimakkuus.

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enemmistö, enemmyys

ylivoima excess Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
Macaulay

In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.
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1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:
But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and un-pleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.
puhekieltä The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
The greater portion of the weight.
The majority.

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