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preˈponderantly, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a preponderating degree; predominantly.
1823Bentham Not Paul 392 Becoming established, it [religion] became noxious,—preponderantly noxious. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xlii. (1870) II. 443 The powers..are either preponderantly strong by nature, or have become preponderantly strong by habit. 1886H. James Bostonians i. ix, So preponderantly intellectual a nature. |