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majorities

Word definitions for majorities in dictionaries

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Majority \Ma*jor"i*ty\, n.; pl. Majorities . [F. majorit['e]. See Major .] The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. Specifically: The military rank of a major. The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage ...

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n. (plural of majority English)

Usage examples of majorities.

Repeatedly throughout the next year, large majorities of Americans would tell pollsters they also supported attacking Iraq.

In fact, abortion may be the only issue on which Clinton did not flip, repeatedly vetoing a series of partial-birth abortion bans passed by large majorities in both the House and Senate.

Although the editors knew that the popular vote at the South had gone for Tilden and the paper had already grudgingly conceded him New York State, they preferred to act as if the Democratic majorities in Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina had already been reversed by the Republican Returning Boards.

Vast majorities of Americans agree with Newt Gingrich on at least three of the issues—school prayer, the death penalty, and sentencing guidelines.

But to a correspondent in England, he warned, “Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots,” and he lamented that so much more blood would have to flow before the lesson was learned.

Inasmuch as vast majorities of Americans consistently rank Republicans as better on national defense, Rove evidently believed this was an argument that would resonate with voters.