American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - adj. Having superior weight, force, importance, or
influence. See Synonyms at dominant. Century Dictionary and
Cyclopedia - Outweighing; preponderating; superior in weight,
force, efficiency, or influence; predominant; prevalent. GNU
Webster's 1913 - adj. Preponderating; outweighing;
overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively - adj. having
superior power and influence “Gertzman argues that moral
reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the
traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s,
and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana
erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps,
sexology, and the most flagitious materials.”” “As an
archipelagic state, Indonesia is understandably wary of China
becoming the preponderant maritime power in the Asia Pacific.”
“• From Genesis to Revelation, the preponderant biblical voice
condemns the vast disparities of poverty and wealth t