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prominence
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "projection," from obsolete French prominence (16c.), from Latin prominentia "a jutting out" (see prominent ). Meaning "distinction, conspicuousness" is attested by 1827. As a type of solar phenomenon, from 1862.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sb’s rise to prominence ▪ His rise to prominence would not have been possible without the war. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE given ▪ On the contrary, it is the formal properties of the device which are commonly ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent. 2 relative importance. 3 A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form. 4 (lb en topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Prominence is a science fiction point and click adventure game developed by Digital Media Workshop, an independent video game developer located in New York . Gameplay involves puzzle-solving, character arcs, and a story of hope and humanity in the traditions ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prominence \Prom"i*nence\, Prominency \Prom"i*nen*cy\, n. [L. prominentia: cf. F. prominence. See Prominent . ] The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness. That which is prominent; a protuberance. Solar prominences ...
Usage examples of prominence.
Antediluvian apostasy was the disregard of the original law of marriage, and the increased prominence of the female sex.
She was not a serving girl, that much was obvious from the richness of her barracan and the cosmetics that highlighted her face, bringing the eyes and rich red mouth into prominence.
Monmouth, turning to the Mayor of Bridgewater, a small, anxious-faced man, who was evidently far from easy at the prominence which his office had brought upon him.
His cricket had frankly been a failure, and the prominence he had gained in his House hardly compensated for the misgivings with which the Chief and Buller regarded his future.
The importance of the nucleus became more and more forcibly impressed upon microscopists, and this body came after a little into such prominence as to hide from view the more familiar protoplasm.
Before the Aryan groups came to prominence, there was a spree of cult violence not widely recognized as millenarian but in fact showing so many signs of the medieval form as to seem a knife-happy parody.
Finally, Karen advanced the solution that Milt should take one of the extension courses that had come into prominence with the peacetime draft and become an officer.
In this instance, given the prominence of the patient in question and the way that prominence was goading the newsies speculations, his emotions went far beyond fury.
In connection with the protectionist agitation, the navigation laws, and their repeal, held an angry prominence.
Church of Rome were to be returned to its old position of prominence, and we were to be recommunicated with the great universe beyond.
Before Steingall uttered another word everyone in the room had a foreboding that they were on the threshold of a discovery which lifted this tragedy into a prominence far beyond aught they had yet dreamed of.
It served not just to keep the girl strapped to the pole but exaggerated the prominence of her breasts by pressing tightly against her rib cage under their swell.
The Judeo-Christian concept of imposed laws of nature, which burst into prominence in seventeenth-century scientific thought, can be traced to the latter part of the thirteenth century, when a new tradition of Christian theology arose, called the theory of voluntarist natural law.
But in 1765, the same year little Abigail was born and Adams found himself chosen surveyor of highways in Braintree, he was swept by events into sudden public prominence.
Inasmuch as most large concerns prosecute both an interstate and a domestic business, while the instrumentalities of interstate commerce and the pecuniary returns from such commerce are ordinarily property within the jurisdiction of some State or other, the task before the Court in drawing the line between the immunity claimed by interstate business on the one hand and the prerogatives claimed by local power on the other has at times involved it in self-contradiction, as successive developments have brought into prominence novel aspects of its complex problem or have altered the perspective in which the interests competing for its protection have appeared.