Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Prominence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
prominence .
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- noun
Prominence .
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Examples
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'Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia?' he inquired with exquisite delicacy of a colleague.
Archive 2004-03-01 David 2004
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'Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia?' he inquired with exquisite delicacy of a colleague.
Billings Blog David 2004
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They rallied me with a good deal of gaiety on different subjects, particularly upon the whiteness of my skin and the prominency of my nose.
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At this single point, a line of antecedent religious life in Scotland rises into brief and impressive prominency.
Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883
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Even in John's account of the raising of Lazarus we find such alternations in the prominency of the Divinity and the humanity of
The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870
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Polish player; no other plausible explanation appears to offer for the prominency and length of space devoted to Rosenthal.
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The gentleness of the old time was sweet to us both: but we had the wish that my father's extravagant prominency in it might be forgotten.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The gentleness of the old time was sweet to us both: but we had the wish that my father's extravagant prominency in it might be forgotten.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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The gentleness of the old time was sweet to us both: but we had the wish that my father's extravagant prominency in it might be forgotten.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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All men are prone to believe in such marvels; and it is quite possible, as Niebuhr supposes, that some discoveries of the remains of mammoths and other monstrous forms embedded in the crust of the earth, may have given definiteness and prominency to the Chaldaean notions on this subject.
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