preponderate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes"
- "That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield."
- "The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace."
- "Anxiety preponderated over hope; and it was scarcely possible for Evelyn to encounter a danger not previously conjured up by the alarmed fancy of his mistress."
- "[…] if the principle of utility is good for anything, it must be good for weighing these conflicting utilities against one another, and marking out the region within which one or the other preponderates."
- "The natives of Banda are very much mixed, and it is probable that at least three-fourths of the population are mongrels, in various degrees of Malay, Papuan, Arab, Portuguese, and Dutch. The first two form the bases of the larger portion, and the dark skins, pronounced features, and more or less frizzly hair of the Papuans preponderates."
Etymology
From Latin praeponderatus, past participle of praeponderāre (“to outweigh”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: praeponderatus