Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a protuberant manner; in the way of protuberance.
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Examples
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As Mr. Hagan declared himself his lower jaw came more protuberantly forward and his eyes blazed with an increasing truculence.
The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904
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I saw Levy clench and unclench his great fists, and his canine jaw working protuberantly as he ground his teeth.
Mr. Justice Raffles 1893
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A blest little old-world refuge it must have seemed to us, with its protuberantly-paved and peculiarly resonant small court and idle _communs_ beside it, accessible by a high grille where the jangle of the bell and the clatter of response across the stones might have figured a comprehensive echo of all old Paris.
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
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