preˈponderating, ppl. a.
[f. preponderate v.1 + -ing2.]
That preponderates, or is superior in weight, influence, power, amount, number, etc.
| 1674 Boyle Excell. Theol. ii. i. 115 Her excellencies, though solid and weighty, are less so, than the preponderating ones of Theology. 1797 Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 325 That very preponderating part of the nation, which had always been..adverse to the French principles. 1886 Tucker E. Europe 211 Your mastery over a preponderating number of alienated races. |
Hence preˈponderatingly adv., in a preponderating or surpassing degree; predominantly.
| 1840 Mill Diss. & Disc., Democr. in Amer. (1859) II. 71 In each of them some one element..existed exclusively or so preponderatingly as to overpower all the others. 1891 Times 6 Oct. 8/2 [Comparative Philology] had been all along preponderatingly the science of comparing the Aryan languages with one another. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 332 The small pyramidal cells..have been assumed to be preponderatingly sensory in feature and function. |