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flagrant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flagrant \Fla"grant\, a. [L. flagrans, -antis, p. pr. of flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. ?: cf. F. flagrant. Cf. Flame, Phlox.]
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Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back.
--Prior.A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle.
--De Quincey.Flagrant desires and affections.
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Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant.
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Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Syn: Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "resplendent" (obsolete), from Latin flagrantem (nominative flagrans) "burning, blazing, glowing," figuratively "glowing with passion, eager, vehement," present participle of flagrare "to burn, blaze, glow" from Proto-Italic *flagro- "burning" (cognates: Oscan flagio-, an epithet of Iuppiter), corresponding to PIE *bhleg-ro-, from *bhleg- "to shine, flash, burn" (cognates: Greek phlegein "to burn, scorch," Latin fulgere "to shine"), from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Sense of "glaringly offensive, scandalous" (rarely used of persons) first recorded 1706, probably from common legalese phrase flagrante delicto "while the crime is being committed, red-handed," literally "with the crime still blazing." Related: Flagrantly.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous 2 (context archaic English) On fire, flaming. Etymology 2
a. (context obsolete English) (misspelling of fragrant English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Flagrant may refer to:
- Flagrant foul, a term in basketball
- In flagrante delicto, caught in the act of committing a crime
Usage examples of "flagrant".
First the tentative withdrawal, and now the ingenuous response, was more erotic than any flagrant vice of the most skilled lover.
Duncan had informed Hazard, in a perfectly modulated voice, unembarrassed by his flagrant blackmail, that should the correspondents disappear, Valerie would simply name some other man in the clan.
Psychological mechanisms which in our case are tempered with common sense or moral sense stood out in this world in flagrant excess.
Meanwhile in the main system arose that flagrant and contagious insanity of empire, which we had already watched in detail.
Like an infatuated lover who denies or excuses the flagrant faults of the beloved, I strove to palliate the inhumanity of the Star Maker, nay positively I gloried in it.
But in defence of it I can honestly say that it is at least no more flagrant than the speculations on this subject that have become enshrined in history as facts.
Her regard for him, the more flagrant by contrast with her contempt for Darnley, is betrayed in the will she made before her confinement in the following June.
A dozen years ago - before misfortune overtook him - he would have accepted her flagrant wooing as a proper tribute.
Jupiter grew restless, and then, shaking off all restraint, plunged into inconstancy of the most scandalous and flagrant kind.
From extortion he was driven by his desperate need of money into flagrant dishonesty.
Iraqi-Syrian pipeline, which had been closed since 1982, and began pumping as much as 200,000 barrels of oil per day in flagrant violation of the U.
Iraq has been in flagrant violation of the terms of the cease-fire since at least October 1998, when it threw out the U.
By arguing the uniqueness of the Iraq case--in terms both of the long history of Iraqi aggression and flagrant violations of international law and its refusal to comply with dozens of Security Council resolutions, many of them enacted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter--we would reassure other nations that Iraq will not simply be the first in a string of U.
And if not, then assuredly the other thing, and that in flagrant degree.
Treason was flagrant in the revenue and in the post-office service, as well as in the Territorial governments and in the Indian reserves.