[へんちょう(P);へんじゅう(ok), henchou (P); henjuu (ok)] (n, vs) preponderance; making too much of; overestimation; overemphasis; attaching too much importance to; (P) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Preponderance \Pre*pon"der*ance\, Preponderancy
\Pre*pon"der*an*cy\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]pond['e]rance.]
1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or
excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an
outweighing.
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The mind should . . . reject or receive
proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater
grounds of probability. --Locke.
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In a few weeks he had changed the relative position
of all the states in Europe, and had restored the
equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had
destroyed. --Macaulay.
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2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind
the trunnions over that in front of them.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
preponderance
n 1: superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of
good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power"
2: a superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of
evidence against the defendant" [syn: {preponderance},
{prevalence}]
3: exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least
preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale"
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