prosilient

Adjective

prosilient (comparative more prosilient, superlative most prosilient)

1. Eminent; prominent; distinguished above others.
   • All travellers of distinction brought letters to Hamilton, for, not excepting Washington, he was to Europeans the most prosilient of Americans.1916, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Conqueror, page 469
   • The piano concerto mentioned as among the prosilient works of the year was that of Ernest Toch, his opus 54.1928, Modern Music: A Quarterly Review - Volumes 6-9, page 21
2. obvious; salient; prominent; conspicuous.
   • The economic depression in the world sericulture industry became suddenly prosilient following the dramatic decision by Japan to call off imports altogether.1974, Indian Textile Industry Annual - Volume 35, page 33
   • Even granting what I hold extravagant, that the two Ev. Inf. can be conjured into compatibility — still the prima facie differences and seeming Contradictions are too many, too important, too prosilient not to have been noticed & explained by the Compiler.1980, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Whalley, H. J. Jackson, Marginalia - Volume 12, Part 4, page 67