prominency

• “Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia?' he inquired with exquisite delicacy of a colleague.”

  Billings Blog

• “They rallied me with a good deal of gaiety on different subjects, particularly upon the whiteness of my skin and the prominency of my nose.”

  Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7

• “At this single point, a line of antecedent religious life in Scotland rises into brief and impressive prominency.”

  Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation

• “Even in John's account of the raising of Lazarus we find such alternations in the prominency of the Divinity and the humanity of”

  The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.

• “Polish player; no other plausible explanation appears to offer for the prominency and length of space devoted to Rosenthal.”

  Chess History and Reminiscences

• “The gentleness of the old time was sweet to us both: but we had the wish that my father's extravagant prominency in it might be forgotten.”

  The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4

• “All men are prone to believe in such marvels; and it is quite possible, as Niebuhr supposes, that some discoveries of the remains of mammoths and other monstrous forms embedded in the crust of the earth, may have given definiteness and prominency to the Chaldaean notions on this subject.”

  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

• “In the first place, there is observable in each a strong and marked prominency of the religious principle.”

  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

• “Again, combined with this prominency of the religious principle, is a sensuousness -- such as we observe in Judaism continually struggling against a higher and purer element -- but which in this less favored branch of the Semitic family reigns uncontrolled, and gives to its religion a gross, material, and even voluptuous character.”

  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

• “It was, however, most important that his dress should possess some distinguishing feature, and that that feature should be one of very marked prominency.”

  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

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