preponderantlyadv.
/prᵻˈpɒnd(ə)rəntli/, /prᵻˈpɒnd(ə)rn̩tli/, U.S. /prəˈpɑnd(ə)rən(t)li/ To a great extent; for the most part; predominantly.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [adverb]
predominately1594
predominantly1606
uppermosta1807
preponderantly1823
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > in or to a greater quantity, amount, or degree > in superior quantity, amount, or degree
aloftc1330
predominately1594
predominantly1606
prevailingly1714
preponderately1789
preponderantly1823
preponderatingly1841
predominatingly1852
1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 392 Becoming established, it [sc. religion] became noxious,—preponderantly noxious.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xlii. 443 The powers..are either preponderantly strong by nature, or have become preponderantly strong by habit.
1886 H. James Bostonians i. ix So preponderantly intellectual a nature.
1955 Sci. Amer. July 581 This is by far the biggest reserve of all known organic mineral substances, which are alike in that all are preponderantly the hydrocarbon remains of former terrestrial life.
1989 P. Lively Passing On i. 10 Sociologically classified, they would have come out as preponderantly As and ABs.
2005 Business Line (Nexis) 5 Sept. The..victims were preponderantly African-Americans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1823