Predominance
[prɪ'dɒmɪnəns] or [prɪ'dɑmɪnəns]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination.
(n.) The superior influence of a planet.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Supremacy, ascendency, prevalence, superiority, sovereignty, mastery.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prevalence, superiority, ascendancy, rule
ANT:Inferiority, subjection, minority, paucity
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Examples
- Sir James had no idea that he should ever like to put down the predominance of this handsome girl, in whose cleverness he delighted. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They had that necessary gift for all peoples destined to political predominance, tolerant assimilation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Pope kept a sort of general predominance there, but he was sometimes more than balanced by a Duke of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The days of any Egyptian predominance over foreign nations were drawing to an end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The utmost reach of the thought of Greece before his time was of a Persian empire Hellenized, a predominance in the world of Macedonians and Greeks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By 49 B.C. he and Pompey, with their legions, he from the west and Pompey from the east, were fighting openly for predominance in the Roman state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here there could be no mistaking the predominance of personality--the unanimous Oh! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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