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Salience   Listen
noun
Salience  n.  
1.
The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
2.
The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.





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"Salience" Quotes from Famous Books



... such historical anarchy, tilts the figure of Mr. Lloyd George into a salience so conspicuous that for a moment one is tempted to confuse prominence with eminence, and to mistake the slagheap of upheaval for ...
— The Mirrors of Downing Street - Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster • Harold Begbie
... prompted, recalled, questioned. His hands worked with a very certain skill, but in his narrative he dropped stitches. Made to pick these up, the result was still a droning monotony burdened with many irrelevancies. I am loath to transcribe his speech. It were better reported with an eye strictly to salience. ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson


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