predomination
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare French prédomination.
Noun
[edit]predomination (countable and uncountable, plural predominations)
- The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.
- 1613, William Browne, “The First Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The First Booke, London: […] Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC, page 20:
- Quoth th'other, haue thy ſtarres maligne been ſuch, / That their predominations ſvvay ſo much / Ouer the reſt, that vvith a milde aſpect / The Liues and loues of Shepherds doe affect?
Further reading
[edit]- “predomination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.