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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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... him, he said, that he could not offer her marriage; but he requested that when his chin was shaved his moustache should be brushed up out of the way of the clippers, for he and all his family were conspicuous for the immense amount of life which they had in them, and his father had lain six-and-thirty hours bleeding on the field of Wagram, and had yet survived to beget a race as hearty as himself:—'Old Austria! ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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... be called a conspicuous literary character; indeed few mortals that have left so visible a work, or footmark, behind them can be more obscure. One other of those vanished Existences, whose work has not yet vanished;—almost a pathetic phenomenon, were not ...

— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle

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... stood on the brink of the river, others had wide avenues leading through the groves, and others were almost hidden from sight by intervening woods. All were calculated to give the ideas of pleasure rather than magnificence, and had more ease than labour conspicuous. ...

— The Great White Queen - A Tale of Treasure and Treason • William Le Queux

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... Olden-Barneveld; and there was still another personage, a very young man still, but a deep-thinking, hard-working student, fagging steadily at mathematics and deep in the works of Stevinus, who, before long, might play a conspicuous part in the world's great drama. But, previously to 1590, Maurice of Nassau seemed comparatively insignificant, and he could be spoken of by courtiers as a cipher, and as an unmannerly boy just ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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... he'd just arrived in Washington that morning and didn't know very much more about the sightings than he'd read in the papers. Major Dewey Fournet and Lieutenant Holcomb, who had been at the airport during the sightings, were extremely conspicuous by their absence, especially since it was common knowledge among the press that they weren't convinced the UFO's picked up on radars were ...

— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

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