majoritarily

English

Etymology

From majority +‎ -ary +‎ -ly. Perhaps a calque of French majoritairement or equivalents in other Romance languages.

Adverb

majoritarily (not comparable)

(uncommon) mostly; predominantly.
- 2009 September 9, Lauriane Cantin, Magalie Lenoir, Sarah Dubreucq, Fushia Serre, Caroline Vouillac, Serge Ahmed, “Choice reveals that rats are majoritarily resilient to cocaine addiction”, in Nature Precedings, →DOI:
  Alternatively, the large difference in reward value between sweetened water and intravenous cocaine found in the present study strongly suggests that despite all the appearances, rats are in fact majoritarily resilient to cocaine addiction.
- 2012, Ana Antić, “Police Force Under Occupation: Serbian State Guard and Volunteers' Corps in the Holocaust”, in Sara R. Horowitz, editor, Lessons and Legacies Volume X: Back to the Sources: Reexamining Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, →DOI, page 26:
  Therefore, even though those released on leaves from Germany were majoritarily ethnic Serbs and even though one of the avowed priorities of the Nedic government was to aid its co-nationals stationed in Germany as much as possible, the situation of those people who did not live up to the requirements and expectations of the newly deﬁned Serbian patriotism was not to be made any easier.
- 2023, Patrick Duffley, “Review of Bouzada-Jabois, Carla. 2021. Nonfinite Supplements in the Recent History of English. Bern: Peter Lang.”, in Research in Corpus Linguistics, volume 11, number 1, →DOI:
  Moreover, Bouzada-Jabois fails to point out that three other categories that rank very high on the informativeness scale are majoritarily non-augmented […]