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語源

preponderant +‎ -ance

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns/, /pɹɪˈpɒndɹəns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɑndəɹəns/, /pɹəˈpɑndɹəns/
• ハイフネーション: pre‧pon‧der‧ance

名詞

preponderance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 preponderances)

1. (obsolete) Greater physical weight.

   Synonym: (廃れた用法) preponderancy

   1. (specifically, weaponry, historical) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
2. Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.

   Synonym: (廃れた用法) preponderancy

   • 1857, R[obert] 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 1013331293, 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.

   • 1997 August 17, Patricia Holt, “Just add sand; trash fiction for end-of-the summer beach reading”, in San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, Calif.: Hearst Communications, ISSN 1932-8672, OCLC 5697914, page 1:

     Is there a preponderance of female protagonists in commercial fiction, and if so, what does it mean?

   • 2000 April 17, Paul Van Slambrouck, “California’s brightest star is, well, gray”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎^[1], Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, ISSN 0882-7729, OCLC 705641703:

     Subtle, institutional discrimination was evident in the preponderance of blacks and underprivileged whites fighting the war.

3. Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.

   Synonyms: (廃れた用法) preponderancy, preponderation

   • 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323, page 49:

     In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.

   • 1953, Sigmund Freud, “Distortion in Dreams”, in James Strachey, transl., The Interpretation of Dreams (First Part) (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud), volume IV, London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, published 1971, →ISBN, page 134:

     But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and unpleasure 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.

別の表記

• praeponderance (廃れた用法, まれに)
• præponderance (廃れた用法, まれに)

派生語

• preponderance of evidence, preponderance of the evidence

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