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The 4,040 Rules of Art Conduct  The Preponderances -  3000-3199 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.         The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater  grounds of probability. --Locke.         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.         2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.                                             Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary rule no. 3078 ‘ Answers are everywhere it is a good question that hard to come by.’   Cecil Touchon