Synonymer

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Definitioner

Verb

  1. (transitive) To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
  2. (transitive) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
  4. (intransitive) To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate

Exempel

  • An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the centre of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes.
  • That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield.
  • The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.
  • [...] 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.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticippreponderated
Imperfektpreponderated
Presensparticippreponderating
Tredje person singular indicativ presenspreponderates

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