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preˈdominancy
[f. as next + -ancy.]
The quality of being predominant; an instance of this; the fact of being predominant; = prec.
1598Florio, Predominatione, predomination, predominancie. 1607–12Bacon Ess., Custom & Educ. (Arb.) 368 The predominancye of Custome is every where visible. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xi. §10 The young Queene..tooke her selfe not to be a little wronged by this vngracious mans predominancy. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. iii. 183 An Inflammation..Oedematous, Schirrous, Erisipelatous, according to the predominancy of melancholy, flegme, or choler. 1652Culpepper Eng. Physic. (1809) 276 Mars claims predominancy over all these wholesome herbs. 1739W. Melmoth Fitzosb. Lett. (1763) 188 To be influenced in his censure or applause..by the predominancy or deficiency of his favorite beauty. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 410 Affected with a predominancy of rigid over clonic action. |