prosilient

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Adjective

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prosilient (comparative more prosilient, superlative most prosilient)

  1. Eminent; prominent; distinguished above others.
    • 1916, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Conqueror, page 469:
      All travellers of distinction brought letters to Hamilton, for, not excepting Washington, he was to Europeans the most prosilient of Americans.
    • 1928, Modern Music: A Quarterly Review - Volumes 6-9, page 21:
      The piano concerto mentioned as among the prosilient works of the year was that of Ernest Toch, his opus 54.
    • 2007, Suresh Chandra Dwivedi, Shubha Dwivedi, Poet Dr. Mahendra Bhatnagar: His Mind and Art, page 1:
      Maheudra Bhatnagar : A Prosilient Poet of Optimism and Certitude
  2. obvious; salient; prominent; conspicuous.
    • 1974, Indian Textile Industry Annual - Volume 35, page 33:
      The economic depression in the world sericulture industry became suddenly prosilient following the dramatic decision by Japan to call off imports altogether.
    • 1980, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Whalley, H. J. Jackson, Marginalia - Volume 12, Part 4, page 67:
      Even granting what I hold extravagant, that the two Ev. Inf. can be conjured into compatibility — still the prima facie differences and seeming Contradictions are too many, too important, too prosilient not to have been noticed & explained by the Compiler.
    • 2004, Carol A. Hess, Sacred Passions : The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla, →ISBN:
      It is difficult to make a death episode . . . without having previously brought the characters into more prosilient relief than those of the Shaw–de Falla opera.

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Verb

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prōsilient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of prōsiliō