Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being perspicuous; perspicuity; clearness to intellectual vision; plainness; freedom from obscurity or ambiguity.
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- noun The state or characteristic of being
perspicuous ;perspicuity .
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- noun clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
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Examples
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You question the symmetry of "ladder", the unusual sensuousness of "maize", the reversed perspicuousness of "proposal" and wonder just what the hell "thorough" is all about.
Archive 2004-09-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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You question the symmetry of "ladder", the unusual sensuousness of "maize", the reversed perspicuousness of "proposal" and wonder just what the hell "thorough" is all about.
whirl Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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His prose style is a rare exemplification of classic severity and perspicuousness.
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In psychology and history, too, although dialectic is soon choked by the cross-currents of nature, it furnishes the little perspicuousness which there is.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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This will be found to differ but little from our old code -- the only variations being such as experience had suggested, and perspicuousness and consistency required.
Journal of the Sixty-eight Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. Held in St. Paul's Church , Richmond on the 20th, 21st and 22nd May, 1863. Episcopal Church. Diocese of Virginia 1863
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And all the vinous i met gregariously, it aristolochiales ringleted when you listener passing a few perspicuousness crisply the syph and you execration frittata that julep who you are.
Rational Review 2009
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