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adjective

Conspicuous adj.

Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. "It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far." "Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood."

Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault. "A man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England."

Synonyms: Distinguished; eminent; famous; illustrious; prominent; celebrated. See Distinguished.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... judgment was always sound, and his opinion, when once formed, was stable and consistent. He was a graduate of Kenyon college and the law school at Cambridge. He had held several local offices in Cincinnati, had served with high credit in the Union army, and had attained the rank of major general by conspicuous heroism in battle. He had been twice elected a Member of Congress from Cincinnati and three times as Governor of Ohio, and in 1876 was elected President of the United States. The contest which was ended by his inauguration has already been ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... attorney had sufficient knowledge of the family of the bride to recognize her by a general resemblance, rendered conspicuous as it was by a pallid face and an almost ungovernable nervous excitement. He pointed her out to the officer, who ordered her to approach him,—a command that caused her to burst into tears. The agitation and distress of his wife ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... jail, a conspicuous stone building in the centre of the town, and were shown into the condemned man's cell. The jailer announced ...

— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... source, viz. the words of Jesus. I am not disposed to dispute, however, the genuineness of this epistle. 'It is an earnest dissuasive,' says Priestly, 'from the spirit of faction, which appeared in the church of Corinth, and which, indeed, was sufficiently conspicuous when Paul wrote ...

— A Series of Letters In Defence of Divine Revelation • Hosea Ballou

... burdened—that the proud Pennycuicks, already humbled, were likely to experience a further fall. Certainly, the governess was dispensed with, and the dashing four-in-hand withdrawn from the local racecourses and agricultural show-grounds, of which it had long been the constant and conspicuous ornament, to be sold at public auction, without reason given. The great, hospitable house got a character for dullness for the first time in its history. No lights or laughter flowed from the windows of the ...

— Sisters • Ada Cambridge

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