All 3 Uses of
prominent
in
Middlemarch
- The cousin was so close now, that, when he lifted his hat, Dorothea could see a pair of gray eves rather near together, a delicate irregular nose with a little ripple in it, and hair falling backward; but there was a mouth and chin of a more prominent, threatening aspect than belonged to the type of the grandmother's miniature.†
Chpt 1
- This was the stranger described by Mrs. Cadwallader as frog-faced: a man perhaps about two or three and thirty, whose prominent eyes, thin-lipped, downward-curved mouth, and hair sleekly brushed away from a forehead that sank suddenly above the ridge of the eyebrows, certainly gave his face a batrachian unchangeableness of expression.†
Chpt 4
- As Rigg pronounced the last words he turned round and looked at Raffles with his prominent frozen eyes.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(prominent as in: a prominent politician) well-known or important -- especially of a person who is respected