Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of standing out or being manifest or conspicuous.
- noun A part rising above the rest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of rising above others; a projection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The state of rising above others; a
projection . - noun obsolete The state of being
extant ;existence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ahahahah.... through this doubling and the resultant difference of effects, Gazira holds us responsible for the violence of signs, the affect of the impact, the effect of the hammer's extancy, the volition of the swing, and the complicity to the hammer and its function.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
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Ahahahah.... through this doubling and the resultant difference of effects, Gazira holds us responsible for the violence of signs, the affect of the impact, the effect of the hammer's extancy, the volition of the swing, and the complicity to the hammer and its function.
She[s] got a hammer: Hammering the Void Bettina Tizzy 2009
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But although Hamilton had, by this time, extancy to suffice any man, and was hunted to his very lair by society, he had no thought of resting on his labours.
The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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