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Predominance

PREDOM'INANCE
PREDOM'INANCY, n. [See Predominant.]
1. Prevalence over others; superiority in strength, power, influence or authority; ascendancy; as the predominance of a red color in a body of various colors; the predominance of love or anger among the passions; the predominance of self-interest over all other considerations; the predominance of imperial authority in the confederacy.
2. In astrology,the superior influence of a planet.
predominance appears in definitions for these words:
Distemper Dominion Predominance Prepotency Prevalence Prevalently Principality Spherical Temperament

 

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