conspicuous

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Of the former, some have already made themselves conspicuous--conspicuous now by their cowardly and hasty apostacy, as they were before by a narrow, contentious, and restless zeal.

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  1. adjective Easy to notice; obvious.
  2. adjective Attracting attention, as by being unusual or remarkable; noticeable. See Synonyms at noticeable.

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  • Up to this point it has been quite conspicuous, and is also beyond; for although it is anything but recent, no rain has since fallen, and the hoof-prints of the horses can be here and there distinguished clean cut on the smooth sward, over which the mounted men had gone at a gallop. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
  • Even her bold and arrogant spirit shrank from a position so conspicuous, and it was not till they had presented themselves and taken their places in front of the latticed window so associated with my past, that I felt that peculiar sensation which always followed the entrance of Marah into the same room with myself, and, yielding to the force that constrained me, I searched the throng with eager looks, and there, where the crowd was thickest, and the shadow deepest, I saw her. —  The Forsaken Inn A Novel
  • The tent of the padre was conspicuous--it was the largest, and I was invited to share it with him. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • Though Barras, confident in his dominion over the Directory, might sneer at the young adventurer from Corsica and minimize his share in a success that had suddenly made him conspicuous, the name of Bonaparte then for the first time took its {305} place in the history of Europe. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
  • The most conspicuous, as the most institutional, feature of the landscape was the group idling on boxes in front of the old Grange store--just as they had idled on boxes before the war. —  Sally of Missouri
 

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  1. From Latin cōnspicuus, from cōnspicere, to observe : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + specere, to look; see spek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese Italian conspicuo, from Latin conspicuus, open to the view, attracting attention, distinguished, from conspicere, look at, see, observe, from com-, together, + specere, look, see, = OHG, spehōn, watch, later ult. English spy: see species, spectacle, spy, etc., and cf. perspicuous.
 

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