predominancy

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English

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Etymology

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From predominant +‎ -ancy.

Noun

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predominancy (countable and uncountable, plural predominancies)

  1. Predominance. [from 16th c.]
    • 1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum:
      I am not treating of the Predominancy of motions or virtues , but of the Predominancy of parts in bodies
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