| 单词 | predominance |
| 释义 | predominance|prɪˈdɒmɪnəns|
Also 7 præ-.
[f. as predominant + -ance. Cf. F. prédominance (16th c.).]
The fact or position of being predominant: a. Astrol. Ascendancy, superior influence.
1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 112 Both haue influence from one ominous star, Which bodes our happinesse or our mischance According to the starres predominance. 1622Fletcher Sea Voy. iii. i, The sullen Saturn had predominance at your nativity! c1650Don Bellianis 178 [A sword] which she forged under the Constellation and Predominance of such Planets, that no Enchantment might against it prevail.
b. generally. Prevailing or superior influence, strength, or authority; prevalence, preponderance. In early use frequently of the humours.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iv. ii, Ther's not a beauty lives Hath that imperiall predominance Ore my affectes. a1627H. Shirley Mart. Soldier iii. iv, Now a Scorpion is A small compacted creature in whom Earth Hath the pre⁓dominance, but mixt with fire. 1668South Serm. (1727) V. xi. 420 It is really no small Argument of the Predominance of Conscience over Interest. 1791Boswell Johnson an. 1716 (1816) I. 24 The early predominance of intellectual vigour. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxviii. (1856) 235 This predominance of breezes from the southward and eastward. |
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