prosilient

comparative more prosilient · superlative most prosilient

1. Eminent; prominent; distinguished above others.

   Maheudra Bhatnagar : A Prosilient Poet of Optimism and Certitude

   2007, Suresh Chandra Dwivedi, Shubha Dwivedi, Poet Dr. Mahendra Bhatnagar: His Mind and Art, page 1

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   All travellers of distinction brought letters to Hamilton, for, not excepting Washington, he was to Europeans the most prosilient of Americans.

   1916, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Conqueror, page 469

   The piano concerto mentioned as among the prosilient works of the year was that of Ernest Toch, his opus 54.

   1928, Modern Music: A Quarterly Review - Volumes 6-9, page 21

2. obvious; salient; prominent; conspicuous.

   The economic depression in the world sericulture industry became suddenly prosilient following the dramatic decision by Japan to call off imports altogether.

   1974, Indian Textile Industry Annual - Volume 35, page 33

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   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.

   1980, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Whalley, H. J. Jackson, Marginalia - Volume 12, Part 4, page 67

   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.

   2004, Carol A. Hess, Sacred Passions : The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla, →ISBN