Superior power or authority; predominance.

Weightiest or heaviest part; greatest stress or severity; preponderance, superior amount (of evidence, authority) on one side or the other of a…

The action, fact, or state of predominating; predominance; (occasionally) an instance of this.

gen. The fact or property of predominating (in later use esp. in terms of quantity or number); preponderance, prevalence; prevailing or superior…

= predominance, n. (in various senses).

gen. Superiority, supremacy; = ascendancy, n.

Superior influence or power; prevalence; = predominance, n.

The quality of being prepotent; superior power or influence; predominance, prevalence.

Greater weight (than that of something else); greater or preponderating power, influence, or importance; (also) an instance of this. Obsolete.

The fact of outweighing or weighing more. Obsolete. rare.

The action or fact of preponderating; greater weight, power, influence, etc.; preponderance, predominance.

The quality or fact of being prepollent; predominance, preponderance.

Superiority in power, influence, or importance; an instance of this; predominance.

the ascendancy, the superiority; = ascendant, n. 3.

The action or fact of outweighing something; a thing which overbalances or weighs more than something; a thing which weighs something down. Also figur…

Superiority in power, influence, persuasiveness, or value; predominance.

Predominance, prevalence; pervasiveness.