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Predominant means the same as dominant, the part or group or aspect which tends to take over. That's what it means now and that's what it meant then.

In Romeo and Juliet Friar Lawrence says:

In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;

And where the worser is predominant,

Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

He's sort of laying out the plot of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde here. Men and plants have a good side and a bad side, and when the bad side gets the upper hand (is predominant) "death eats up that plant".

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